March 13, 2025 • 22 mins
On today’s episode, Jason discusses whether or not the Oklahoma City Thunder’s impressive road win over the Boston Celtics should make them the favorites to win the NBA championship, how Aaron Rodgers seems to be holding guys like Russell Wilson and Kirk Cousins hostage, the San Francisco 49ers’ decision to sign Mac Jones as their backup quarterback and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
This is straight fire with Jason McIntyre.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
What is up, straight Firepan, It's me Jason McIntyre. Straight
fire for Thursday, March the thirteenth March is always one
of the best months on the calendar. Listen. I started
to dig into my taxes. Oh man, that's not fun.
Taxes doing a month started to fire up those you know,
the accountants got to get the info. Hell no, I can't.
(00:33):
I don't change my own flat tires and I don't
do my taxes. Come on, guys, you gotta pay somebody,
pay the experts to do it. Save yourself some time
and energy and frustration. But I do not need to
pay anybody to look at the college basketball landscape. I mean, listen,
Wednesday was a bit of a bloodbath for your boy.
If I can boast about an eight and two Saturday,
I can tell you I had two and five. Took
(00:55):
it on the Chin Arkansas, which Thomas, our guest yesterday, loved.
They had to push, but it's for lost. A three
team parlay ended up chasing. It's just not a great Wednesday. Hey,
it happens, boot and rally. As I told my boy,
you just got to move on. And today the landscape
is incredible. To Cooper, Flag and Duke take the court
at high noon at the ACC Tournament. You got Iowa
(01:18):
State BYU should be a good game. Madison Square Garden
has Xavier Marquette. Those games are on Peacock, which makes
it a little weird changing back and forth channels. Not ideal,
but I do like Peacock. By the way, when the
hell is the next season of bell Air coming? I'm
still waiting for It's a great show. I miss it,
deeply need bell Air back, so big Thursday in college
(01:38):
basketball obviously this weekend, you guys are gonna do all
your scouting to cram for the Test aka March Madness.
I wrote up for Futures Bets you Need for Fox Sports,
and I also wrote up for Sleepers. I think both
of those will be posted either already or soon on
Fox sports dot com. But you know I love March. Guys.
(01:58):
Now listen, we're gonna get to the NFL at a
minute and a lot more is happening. That being said,
I quickly need to address, just briefly, this NBA showdown
that was billed as a finals preview. It's Boston, It's okay.
See this game matters. This is a big one and
the Thummer Thunder come out on top of a nice
(02:19):
road win. What eighteen one to twelve MVP SGA, Listen,
he did what free throw merchants do. He got to
the line. He was ten of eleven from the line.
These Celtics as a team were ten of twelve. The
Celtics shot sixty three three pointers. That is a seed.
That's crazy. Sixty three to three pointers. The rest of
(02:42):
their shots, you know, they didn't shoot great from the
field forty three percent put on threes. They were twenty
of sixty three. So you usually hit twenty threes, you win.
But not when you're giving up twenty five free throws
and Boston only makes ten. You know, like that the
big three point edge they had his kind of sort
of wiped out by all the free throws that SGA
(03:04):
and company were generating. Now, I don't want to read
too much into a middle of March NBA regular season game. Okay,
Porzingis did not play. Tatum was pretty damn good. Didn't
shoot it well from three. He had thirty three eight
and eight. Drew Holliday one of seven from three, only
(03:26):
got nine points. Derek White twenty two points. Jalen Brown
really struggled, ended up fouling out, ended up complaining about
how physical Okayse he was? Okayse was missing Jdubb what's physical?
Lou Dort? Was he bothering you? Ken Rich Williams, Isaiah Joe,
you know, Cason Wallace, I don't know Aaron. They started
Aaron Wiggins. He went over nine.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Like.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
I just walk away from this as like, Okay, okay
See really good in the regular season. I just you
need to prove it to me in the playoffs. I
got to see it. I don't think it makes me
a hater. I don't think that means I'm not a fan.
I just need to see them do in the playoffs.
I'm not ready to say they're the team to be.
(04:08):
I'm sorry, Boston is the team to be. As Rick
Flair eloquently once said, to be the best, you gotta
beat the best, And I totally Eveland takes down Boston
in the playoffs, which is possible. I just don't think
it happens. Or oka See takes down Boston in the finals.
I don't even think Okaysee gets to the finals. I'm
just gonna say, Okay, s He's a really, really nice
(04:28):
regular season team. We know SGA is good. He's probably
gonna win the MVP. I would vote for Jokic. I
don't hate SGA. They did sweep the Thunder winning in
early January and now in March, so you know, a
couple of nice little scalps there for OKC. But I
don't know. I mean, I just I'm not afraid. I
(04:51):
remain unafraid of OKCE. And Brian Windhorst went on TV
this week and is saying players in the West are
not afraid of them, which is what we've been saying
for week. Like I don't we like Windworth, but you
don't need something insider to tell you players are unafraid
of Oka. See. Like, guys, they were favored against the
MAVs last year in the series and they lose with
(05:13):
home court advantage, and it's essentially the same team with
Alex Caruso who did not play last sight and they're
a year older, and obviously, you know, you look at
that MAVs team and it was like Kyrie and Luca
and a bunch of role players and they hit threes
(05:35):
and Okay, see didn't. Shay was awesome in that series.
I think he was like thirty two ten and eight something.
He shot like fifty five percent from three. He was
very good in that series. It was the other guys
who didn't deliver, and that's my concern. But I'm on
so many text threads where nobody believes in OKAC, and
I just I got to see it to believe it. Again,
(05:56):
I'm not a hater.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
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All right, let's get to the NFL, where nothing really
shocking happened on Wednesday, at least nothing from my perspective,
was absolutely a stunner, Like, oh my gosh, I can't
believe that happened. Except late at night you get word
that the forty nine ers have a sign deal with
(06:29):
the quarterback and his name is Mac Jones, a two year,
seven million dollar deal, presumably to be the backup in
San Francisco. I don't know if I mean, I cannot
imagine that this was done to get some some sort
of leverage on brock Perty being like, hey man, we've
got our guy. In Mac Jones, and we want him
(06:52):
to be the backup. But if you're driving a hard bargain,
we don't find a deal. We'll just start Mac. Now,
this is where it gets really interesting. If you guys
remember Mac Jones when he was coming out in the draft, famously,
Kyle Shanahan loved him, and that was the guy that
everybody thought. Kyle Shanahan and John Lynch were gonna get
(07:12):
Mac Jones. They didn't take him. They ended up taking
Trey Lance. So now with their second bite at the Apple,
they finally get their guy, Mac Jones to be the backup. No,
Mac Jones is on. I believe this is his third
team in three years. I got a check. He was
only drafted in twenty twenty one. Yeah, so he was
(07:34):
Patriots for three years. Remember that rookie year he had
twenty two touchdowns and made the playoffs. It literally has
been all downhill from there. In games, completions, attempts, completion percentage,
yards touched out, everything has gone down every single year.
And then he was New England twenty three, at Jacksonville
(07:56):
twenty four, and now he will go Niners in twenty five.
I cannot imagine that he's a starting quarterback in this
league at this juncture. That being said, you know, Kyle
Shanahan is a pretty damn good coach, guys, and I
know they had a rough year. I heard my boy
Adam Chernoff, who you guys know very well from this pod,
(08:17):
had some interesting assessments of the Niners offense and how
they're pivoting away from the twenty one personnel with the
two running backs and one tight end, and I guess
his guests or educated guests or informed guesses, they're gonna
now go to twelve personnel, two tight ends and one
running back. According to Adam, after that Super Bowl that
(08:41):
the Chiefs beat him, Spagnolo's defensive game plan, which slowed
them down, was basically play heavy, heavy, heavy man coverage,
no blitzing, just getting home with the pass rush. And
I guess it worked to the point that they looked
at tape defenses around the league and everybody copied them
and said that's what we're gonna do. And of course,
(09:03):
when McCaffrey's hurt and then Ayuk goes down and Debo
can't separate, it's like, oh wow, the medals clogged and
take it away where are they going to go and
there was nowhere to go for Rock Purty. Obviously, the
Niners had the most injured offense in the league last year,
and Christian mccafrey should be back. A Yuk should be
back for the start of the season, so things should
be should be, should be okay. For Sanfran obviously you
(09:28):
need brock Party in place. They're not doing anything with
mac Jones. Sorry, guys, I'm not buying that, but it
is interesting that that there's like almost a huge, not
necessarily a culture skift, just a scheme shift, just a
different outlook because I guess when you run the same
stuff and dominate long enough as the Niners have, they've
had like an amazing five year run of success. Hey man,
(09:50):
time to change things up. So you know, you dump
the full back, you move on from Debo, and you know,
if you look at some of these mock drafts, there
is some speculation, Hey, is there a world where the
Niners end up with Tyler Warren the tight end from
Benn State. I mean, I don't think that would happen,
but Warren and Kittle Niners are at eleven. I think
(10:13):
the Jets should take him at seven. Niners would probably
not take Loveland from Michigan or fannin the other the
kid from the MAC. I don't think they would take
either of them. At eleven. You probably try to trade back.
Maybe Dallas tries to jump up one spot to get genty.
I don't know. By the way, it sounds like we'll
get to the genty in a sect. But it sounds
(10:35):
like maybe there's smoke around him in the top ten now.
But I think the Niners will have options. And if
they do get a second tight end to pair with Kittle,
that's going to be formidable.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Guys.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Piersoll and I you go on the outside, two good
tight ends and c Maac like, good luck defending that.
And Shanahan's going to be highly motivated to kick some
ass and take some names after this horrendous season. You
just got to get rock Purdy done, and I think
it will get done. We'll just go other quarterbacks real quick.
Aaron Rodgers officially released, and you know, we like to
read between the lines here. We need to kind of
(11:11):
try to read the tea leaves. And Adam Schefter went
on ESPN and had an interesting take where he was
I think it was a radio show, But he was
giving off the aura of two teams, specifically, the Steelers
and Giants are frustrated with Aaron Rodgers. The Jets have
(11:31):
released him. What do you need three or four weeks
to decide anything for? Do you want to pull another
I need a darkness retreat. I don't know if I
want to come back. Is that really where Aaron Rodgers
is now? Rogers would probably say, nobody's speaking for me.
Nobody called me and asked me. I'm not I'm not
giving out any information. My agent is not. Who knows
if Rogers even in touch with his agent right now.
(11:54):
But to me, the Schefter report was like, the Giants
are like, what are we rating around for? Let's at
the show on the road. The Steelers, you want a quarterback?
Got we want to get this locked up. If you've
got the choice of Russell Wilson or Aaron Rodgers, I
think at this point you still take Aaron Rodgers. If
you've got the choice of Kirk Cousins, who has not
(12:16):
been released by the Falcons, or Aaron Rodgers, I think
you take Rogers. But really there's only two teams that
need quarterbacks, right. I think we would all agree that
the Tennessee Titans are going to go cam wore one.
I thought Schador was going to go too. But Russell
Wilson is going to meet with the Browns today and
(12:38):
then he will fly to New York to meet with
the Giants Friday. So it sounds like Pittsburgh's out. Pittsburgh's
waiting on Aaron Rodgers. I don't know why the Browns
are talking to Russell Wilson. Didn't you just trade for
Kenny Pickett as your backup and your starter's gonna be
Shador Sanders? Is this smoke screen season to the you know,
(13:00):
to next level stuff? Hey, Russell Wilson, come on in.
We don't know if we're taking Shador. Who knows, Guys,
they gotta take Shador right. I know some people don't
like him, but could he have turned off teams that
much at the combine that the Browns don't want him?
I don't know it just this is all just stunning,
real quick. On Kirk Cousins, he interestingly has not been
(13:22):
released by the Falcons. He went to the owner and
asked to be released, hasn't gotten it, and they will
owe him ten million dollars if he's on the roster
here in short order? Are the Falcons dumb enough to
just eat that and then be like, we're just gonna
keep Kirk Cousins. We'll trade him later if somebody's desperate,
will swallow the ten mil as opposed to just moving
on right now, Like Kirk Cousins is gonna get shafted.
(13:44):
Every quarterback is going to be in place. The only
way he'll go somewhere else is if there's an injury.
So I feel a little bit bad for Kirk Cousins,
but you can't when you see how much money he's
made in his career.
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Speaker 2 (14:07):
Other NFL moves that were moderately interesting. Mike Williams back
to the Chargers. Remember the big body. Mike Williams tried
to play for the Jets. Didn't really work out. Aaron
Rodgers threw them under the bus. Total non factor. Rico
Dowdell who kind of had a good season, sneaky good
in Dallas. They were terrible, but he was kind of good.
(14:28):
I don't know that he was Tony Pollard good from
a couple of years ago. But Dowdell showed some flashes.
He's going with the Carolina Panthers, meaning meaning that this
move of Javante Williams to Dallas puts Javonte Williams at
the top of the depth chart for running back.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
And and.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Let's not forget Ashton Genty is a hot name around
number twelve to the Cowboys. Now, we've talked about it
with other draft guys here on the pod. This a
loaded running back draft. There's so many fricking good running backs,
Omari and Hampton from North Carolina. He's gonna be a
first round pick. There's just a lot of good ones.
(15:10):
If Hampton's really good and you get up at twenty
eight and he's ninety percent in genty, like, I don't
see why you don't just wait for Hampton. Plus, even
if the Cowboys get genty, the line is crap. Is
he gonna have success? But the big story is that
allegedly the Bears are floating that they are interested in
(15:30):
Ashton Genty. They're reworked interior offensive line, they got two
new guards. I think they got a new center. As well. Yeah,
they got the kid Dolman. They're all fired up. And
if you plug Ashton Genty in there alongside DeAndre Swift
and you know, Roshawn Johnson or whatever you want, they
will then try to set up what the Detroit Lions
(15:51):
had with a great line Montgomery and then Gibbs, and
all of a sudden, you've got this high octane running
game and it opens up the pass game because you've
got to stop the run obviously, because Genty's gonna go bonkers.
It is interesting. I just find it a little hard
to believe that the Bears would go running back at
(16:13):
ten again Gibbs went twelve to the Lions. I didn't
think Gibbs was that highly touted of a prospect. He
has looked awesome in the NFL, but as we saw
in the playoffs, like you fall behind two touchdowns to
Washington and Gibbs kind of becomes what good is running back.
(16:34):
Bears offensive line has been fixed, We liked their quarterback.
It seems like a lot of pieces are in place.
I think this is a big a lot of bs
because again, loaded running back, you're seeing third round running
backs come out and really have awesome seasons, do you
need to get one that high? And my question is,
are the Bears floating this? So somebody trades up to
(16:55):
snag genty before San fran or Dallas or Miami or
whoever has a shot at him, and then you get
an extra pick or two. And I think that's probably
the game that the Bears are trying to play right now. Yeah,
it definitely strikes me as, Oh, the Bears like a
(17:16):
running back is the last piece to the puzzle, and
I just I don't buy that at all. I forgot
one of the quarterback is I'm looking at the draft list.
The Colts went and spent actual dollars on Daniel Jones.
Now we know Shane Stikeen's a good offensive mind, he
likes mobile quarterbacks. Jalen hurts Anthony richardson Daniel Jones. But
(17:37):
Daniel Jones is just so inaccurate that I don't He
doesn't strike me as the type of guy who's gonna
go to Indy win the job and then the Colts
are going to be good. I don't see it. And
I did read a report that Anthony Richards working with
Josh Allen's quarterback trainer in an effort you know, remember
(17:57):
Josh Allen made the big leap from year one to
year two in terms of accuracy, and then by year
three he was like, holy shit, this is a totally
different football player. Can Anthony Richardson make that kind of leap?
I don't know I personally, you know, I guess Jones
could win the job, but my money would probably be
on Anthony Richardson. I don't know if the culture could
be good enough to be a playoff team. But if
(18:18):
you're asking me now, who are my you know, seven
playoff teams as free agency, and there's still some pieces
to go. But I would say most of the important
guys who will swing a game a division, a playoff spot,
most of them are off the table. I don't even
know if Anon Rodgers is still in that discussion, but
in the NFC, I would say the seven playoff teams
(18:41):
as of now, again, we still got the draft to
go Philadelphia. I think Washington's going back to the playoffs.
I'll skip the North for a second, I'll skip to
the West, and I'll just go Rams. I'm gonna put
a pin in the Niners until the party deal's done,
just in case something wacky happens that they don't actually
get him, and I will go with is it two
(19:04):
ballsy to go Carolina? I mean, they did have a
minus one to ninety three point differential, worse than the
NFC by a lot. They did end the season strong.
Is it too bold to take the Panthers to win
the division? I mean, Falcons, they've improved the pass rush.
I just I don't Michael Pennix. We'll see. Maybe that's
(19:26):
the Falcons. It's gonna be Bucks, Falcons or Panthers. Just
one team for that division. It will not be the Saints,
and I think so I we're going two three four, Yeah,
So if we leave the Niners out, I could take
three from the NFC North. I do believe the Vikings,
who have gone heavily into the trenches. I think their
(19:47):
investment will pay off. And I'm a believer in McCarthy
and Kevin o'connells. So I like the Vikings to win
that division. I think the Lions and Packers will fight
for second, and I think the Bears will be right
there battling them. I mean, that could be a division
where some a good team wins nine games to get shafted.
Is that Detroit who lost both coordinators. Is that Green Bay,
(20:07):
which I don't know, just didn't really impress at at
any point last season, or could it be the Bears
making the leap up with Ben Johnson. NFC to me
is tougher to peg AFC, I feels a little easier.
I think Buffalo's a lock in that division. I don't
have anyone else going to the playoffs. I'll skip the
North because it's loaded. Actually I'll skip the South too,
(20:27):
I'll go right to the West. I believe the Chargers
or Broncos will win that division. I love the Broncos
pillaging old players from the Niners. You know, you get
veterans who, if they're healthy, Holy cow, whu funga green
law like lookout, Okay, Broncos are gonna be good. I
do believe the Chiefs pull back. Well, we they ten
to zero in one score games. I don't even Maybe
(20:50):
the Chargers with the division, maybe the Broncos. Chiefs are
a playoff team I have obviously I will go. I
really want to take the Titans to win that divis.
Texans are going to have like four new offensive linemen.
Don't know what to do with the Colts Trevor Lawrence healthy.
I don't know what the hell's going on there? Why
not the Titans if they get kill mort that divisions
(21:12):
up for grabs. And then in the North, obviously I
have Ravens, I do not have Steelers, I do not
have Browns. And I do think Joe Burrow gets back
to the playoffs. So it's early and we'll revisit this.
I will look at futures bets to potentially make, but
I do think I'll take a couple of long shots
to win the division AKA Denver, maybe Tennessee. You know,
(21:33):
you want to avoid the hot teams that everybody's talking about.
I think a lot of people are going to be
on the Bears. I don't think many are going to
be on the Vikings after losing Sam Darnold, I think
a lot of people will bet on the Bengals. I
don't think many people are gonna be on Carolina. But
could Carolina actually deliver that division? And if you're getting
a little spicy, but it's all about March madness now.
(21:54):
And we did a little NBA tomorrow back with who
the hell knows what? We just have and so much
fun here. Thanks for listening.
This is straight fire with Jason McIntyre.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
What is up, straight Firepan, It's me Jason McIntyre. Straight
fire for Thursday, March the thirteenth March is always one
of the best months on the calendar. Listen. I started
to dig into my taxes. Oh man, that's not fun.
Taxes doing a month started to fire up those you know,
the accountants got to get the info. Hell no, I can't.
(00:33):
I don't change my own flat tires and I don't
do my taxes. Come on, guys, you gotta pay somebody,
pay the experts to do it. Save yourself some time
and energy and frustration. But I do not need to
pay anybody to look at the college basketball landscape. I mean, listen,
Wednesday was a bit of a bloodbath for your boy.
If I can boast about an eight and two Saturday,
I can tell you I had two and five. Took
(00:55):
it on the Chin Arkansas, which Thomas, our guest yesterday, loved.
They had to push, but it's for lost. A three
team parlay ended up chasing. It's just not a great Wednesday. Hey,
it happens, boot and rally. As I told my boy,
you just got to move on. And today the landscape
is incredible. To Cooper, Flag and Duke take the court
at high noon at the ACC Tournament. You got Iowa
(01:18):
State BYU should be a good game. Madison Square Garden
has Xavier Marquette. Those games are on Peacock, which makes
it a little weird changing back and forth channels. Not ideal,
but I do like Peacock. By the way, when the
hell is the next season of bell Air coming? I'm
still waiting for It's a great show. I miss it,
deeply need bell Air back, so big Thursday in college
(01:38):
basketball obviously this weekend, you guys are gonna do all
your scouting to cram for the Test aka March Madness.
I wrote up for Futures Bets you Need for Fox Sports,
and I also wrote up for Sleepers. I think both
of those will be posted either already or soon on
Fox sports dot com. But you know I love March. Guys.
(01:58):
Now listen, we're gonna get to the NFL at a
minute and a lot more is happening. That being said,
I quickly need to address, just briefly, this NBA showdown
that was billed as a finals preview. It's Boston, It's okay.
See this game matters. This is a big one and
the Thummer Thunder come out on top of a nice
(02:19):
road win. What eighteen one to twelve MVP SGA, Listen,
he did what free throw merchants do. He got to
the line. He was ten of eleven from the line.
These Celtics as a team were ten of twelve. The
Celtics shot sixty three three pointers. That is a seed.
That's crazy. Sixty three to three pointers. The rest of
(02:42):
their shots, you know, they didn't shoot great from the
field forty three percent put on threes. They were twenty
of sixty three. So you usually hit twenty threes, you win.
But not when you're giving up twenty five free throws
and Boston only makes ten. You know, like that the
big three point edge they had his kind of sort
of wiped out by all the free throws that SGA
(03:04):
and company were generating. Now, I don't want to read
too much into a middle of March NBA regular season game. Okay,
Porzingis did not play. Tatum was pretty damn good. Didn't
shoot it well from three. He had thirty three eight
and eight. Drew Holliday one of seven from three, only
(03:26):
got nine points. Derek White twenty two points. Jalen Brown
really struggled, ended up fouling out, ended up complaining about
how physical Okayse he was? Okayse was missing Jdubb what's physical?
Lou Dort? Was he bothering you? Ken Rich Williams, Isaiah Joe,
you know, Cason Wallace, I don't know Aaron. They started
Aaron Wiggins. He went over nine.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Like.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
I just walk away from this as like, Okay, okay
See really good in the regular season. I just you
need to prove it to me in the playoffs. I
got to see it. I don't think it makes me
a hater. I don't think that means I'm not a fan.
I just need to see them do in the playoffs.
I'm not ready to say they're the team to be.
(04:08):
I'm sorry, Boston is the team to be. As Rick
Flair eloquently once said, to be the best, you gotta
beat the best, And I totally Eveland takes down Boston
in the playoffs, which is possible. I just don't think
it happens. Or oka See takes down Boston in the finals.
I don't even think Okaysee gets to the finals. I'm
just gonna say, Okay, s He's a really, really nice
(04:28):
regular season team. We know SGA is good. He's probably
gonna win the MVP. I would vote for Jokic. I
don't hate SGA. They did sweep the Thunder winning in
early January and now in March, so you know, a
couple of nice little scalps there for OKC. But I
don't know. I mean, I just I'm not afraid. I
(04:51):
remain unafraid of OKCE. And Brian Windhorst went on TV
this week and is saying players in the West are
not afraid of them, which is what we've been saying
for week. Like I don't we like Windworth, but you
don't need something insider to tell you players are unafraid
of Oka. See. Like, guys, they were favored against the
MAVs last year in the series and they lose with
(05:13):
home court advantage, and it's essentially the same team with
Alex Caruso who did not play last sight and they're
a year older, and obviously, you know, you look at
that MAVs team and it was like Kyrie and Luca
and a bunch of role players and they hit threes
(05:35):
and Okay, see didn't. Shay was awesome in that series.
I think he was like thirty two ten and eight something.
He shot like fifty five percent from three. He was
very good in that series. It was the other guys
who didn't deliver, and that's my concern. But I'm on
so many text threads where nobody believes in OKAC, and
I just I got to see it to believe it. Again,
(05:56):
I'm not a hater.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
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All right, let's get to the NFL, where nothing really
shocking happened on Wednesday, at least nothing from my perspective,
was absolutely a stunner, Like, oh my gosh, I can't
believe that happened. Except late at night you get word
that the forty nine ers have a sign deal with
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the quarterback and his name is Mac Jones, a two year,
seven million dollar deal, presumably to be the backup in
San Francisco. I don't know if I mean, I cannot
imagine that this was done to get some some sort
of leverage on brock Perty being like, hey man, we've
got our guy. In Mac Jones, and we want him
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to be the backup. But if you're driving a hard bargain,
we don't find a deal. We'll just start Mac. Now,
this is where it gets really interesting. If you guys
remember Mac Jones when he was coming out in the draft, famously,
Kyle Shanahan loved him, and that was the guy that
everybody thought. Kyle Shanahan and John Lynch were gonna get
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Mac Jones. They didn't take him. They ended up taking
Trey Lance. So now with their second bite at the Apple,
they finally get their guy, Mac Jones to be the backup. No,
Mac Jones is on. I believe this is his third
team in three years. I got a check. He was
only drafted in twenty twenty one. Yeah, so he was
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Patriots for three years. Remember that rookie year he had
twenty two touchdowns and made the playoffs. It literally has
been all downhill from there. In games, completions, attempts, completion percentage,
yards touched out, everything has gone down every single year.
And then he was New England twenty three, at Jacksonville
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twenty four, and now he will go Niners in twenty five.
I cannot imagine that he's a starting quarterback in this
league at this juncture. That being said, you know, Kyle
Shanahan is a pretty damn good coach, guys, and I
know they had a rough year. I heard my boy
Adam Chernoff, who you guys know very well from this pod,
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had some interesting assessments of the Niners offense and how
they're pivoting away from the twenty one personnel with the
two running backs and one tight end, and I guess
his guests or educated guests or informed guesses, they're gonna
now go to twelve personnel, two tight ends and one
running back. According to Adam, after that Super Bowl that
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the Chiefs beat him, Spagnolo's defensive game plan, which slowed
them down, was basically play heavy, heavy, heavy man coverage,
no blitzing, just getting home with the pass rush. And
I guess it worked to the point that they looked
at tape defenses around the league and everybody copied them
and said that's what we're gonna do. And of course,
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when McCaffrey's hurt and then Ayuk goes down and Debo
can't separate, it's like, oh wow, the medals clogged and
take it away where are they going to go and
there was nowhere to go for Rock Purty. Obviously, the
Niners had the most injured offense in the league last year,
and Christian mccafrey should be back. A Yuk should be
back for the start of the season, so things should
be should be, should be okay. For Sanfran obviously you
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need brock Party in place. They're not doing anything with
mac Jones. Sorry, guys, I'm not buying that, but it
is interesting that that there's like almost a huge, not
necessarily a culture skift, just a scheme shift, just a
different outlook because I guess when you run the same
stuff and dominate long enough as the Niners have, they've
had like an amazing five year run of success. Hey man,
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time to change things up. So you know, you dump
the full back, you move on from Debo, and you know,
if you look at some of these mock drafts, there
is some speculation, Hey, is there a world where the
Niners end up with Tyler Warren the tight end from
Benn State. I mean, I don't think that would happen,
but Warren and Kittle Niners are at eleven. I think
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the Jets should take him at seven. Niners would probably
not take Loveland from Michigan or fannin the other the
kid from the MAC. I don't think they would take
either of them. At eleven. You probably try to trade back.
Maybe Dallas tries to jump up one spot to get genty.
I don't know. By the way, it sounds like we'll
get to the genty in a sect. But it sounds
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like maybe there's smoke around him in the top ten now.
But I think the Niners will have options. And if
they do get a second tight end to pair with Kittle,
that's going to be formidable.
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Guys.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Piersoll and I you go on the outside, two good
tight ends and c Maac like, good luck defending that.
And Shanahan's going to be highly motivated to kick some
ass and take some names after this horrendous season. You
just got to get rock Purdy done, and I think
it will get done. We'll just go other quarterbacks real quick.
Aaron Rodgers officially released, and you know, we like to
read between the lines here. We need to kind of
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try to read the tea leaves. And Adam Schefter went
on ESPN and had an interesting take where he was
I think it was a radio show, But he was
giving off the aura of two teams, specifically, the Steelers
and Giants are frustrated with Aaron Rodgers. The Jets have
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released him. What do you need three or four weeks
to decide anything for? Do you want to pull another
I need a darkness retreat. I don't know if I
want to come back. Is that really where Aaron Rodgers
is now? Rogers would probably say, nobody's speaking for me.
Nobody called me and asked me. I'm not I'm not
giving out any information. My agent is not. Who knows
if Rogers even in touch with his agent right now.
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But to me, the Schefter report was like, the Giants
are like, what are we rating around for? Let's at
the show on the road. The Steelers, you want a quarterback?
Got we want to get this locked up. If you've
got the choice of Russell Wilson or Aaron Rodgers, I
think at this point you still take Aaron Rodgers. If
you've got the choice of Kirk Cousins, who has not
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been released by the Falcons, or Aaron Rodgers, I think
you take Rogers. But really there's only two teams that
need quarterbacks, right. I think we would all agree that
the Tennessee Titans are going to go cam wore one.
I thought Schador was going to go too. But Russell
Wilson is going to meet with the Browns today and
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then he will fly to New York to meet with
the Giants Friday. So it sounds like Pittsburgh's out. Pittsburgh's
waiting on Aaron Rodgers. I don't know why the Browns
are talking to Russell Wilson. Didn't you just trade for
Kenny Pickett as your backup and your starter's gonna be
Shador Sanders? Is this smoke screen season to the you know,
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to next level stuff? Hey, Russell Wilson, come on in.
We don't know if we're taking Shador. Who knows, Guys,
they gotta take Shador right. I know some people don't
like him, but could he have turned off teams that
much at the combine that the Browns don't want him?
I don't know it just this is all just stunning,
real quick. On Kirk Cousins, he interestingly has not been
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released by the Falcons. He went to the owner and
asked to be released, hasn't gotten it, and they will
owe him ten million dollars if he's on the roster
here in short order? Are the Falcons dumb enough to
just eat that and then be like, we're just gonna
keep Kirk Cousins. We'll trade him later if somebody's desperate,
will swallow the ten mil as opposed to just moving
on right now, Like Kirk Cousins is gonna get shafted.
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Every quarterback is going to be in place. The only
way he'll go somewhere else is if there's an injury.
So I feel a little bit bad for Kirk Cousins,
but you can't when you see how much money he's
made in his career.
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Other NFL moves that were moderately interesting. Mike Williams back
to the Chargers. Remember the big body. Mike Williams tried
to play for the Jets. Didn't really work out. Aaron
Rodgers threw them under the bus. Total non factor. Rico
Dowdell who kind of had a good season, sneaky good
in Dallas. They were terrible, but he was kind of good.
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I don't know that he was Tony Pollard good from
a couple of years ago. But Dowdell showed some flashes.
He's going with the Carolina Panthers, meaning meaning that this
move of Javante Williams to Dallas puts Javonte Williams at
the top of the depth chart for running back.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
And and.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Let's not forget Ashton Genty is a hot name around
number twelve to the Cowboys. Now, we've talked about it
with other draft guys here on the pod. This a
loaded running back draft. There's so many fricking good running backs,
Omari and Hampton from North Carolina. He's gonna be a
first round pick. There's just a lot of good ones.
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If Hampton's really good and you get up at twenty
eight and he's ninety percent in genty, like, I don't
see why you don't just wait for Hampton. Plus, even
if the Cowboys get genty, the line is crap. Is
he gonna have success? But the big story is that
allegedly the Bears are floating that they are interested in
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Ashton Genty. They're reworked interior offensive line, they got two
new guards. I think they got a new center. As well. Yeah,
they got the kid Dolman. They're all fired up. And
if you plug Ashton Genty in there alongside DeAndre Swift
and you know, Roshawn Johnson or whatever you want, they
will then try to set up what the Detroit Lions
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had with a great line Montgomery and then Gibbs, and
all of a sudden, you've got this high octane running
game and it opens up the pass game because you've
got to stop the run obviously, because Genty's gonna go bonkers.
It is interesting. I just find it a little hard
to believe that the Bears would go running back at
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ten again Gibbs went twelve to the Lions. I didn't
think Gibbs was that highly touted of a prospect. He
has looked awesome in the NFL, but as we saw
in the playoffs, like you fall behind two touchdowns to
Washington and Gibbs kind of becomes what good is running back.
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Bears offensive line has been fixed, We liked their quarterback.
It seems like a lot of pieces are in place.
I think this is a big a lot of bs
because again, loaded running back, you're seeing third round running
backs come out and really have awesome seasons, do you
need to get one that high? And my question is,
are the Bears floating this? So somebody trades up to
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snag genty before San fran or Dallas or Miami or
whoever has a shot at him, and then you get
an extra pick or two. And I think that's probably
the game that the Bears are trying to play right now. Yeah,
it definitely strikes me as, Oh, the Bears like a
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running back is the last piece to the puzzle, and
I just I don't buy that at all. I forgot
one of the quarterback is I'm looking at the draft list.
The Colts went and spent actual dollars on Daniel Jones.
Now we know Shane Stikeen's a good offensive mind, he
likes mobile quarterbacks. Jalen hurts Anthony richardson Daniel Jones. But
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Daniel Jones is just so inaccurate that I don't He
doesn't strike me as the type of guy who's gonna
go to Indy win the job and then the Colts
are going to be good. I don't see it. And
I did read a report that Anthony Richards working with
Josh Allen's quarterback trainer in an effort you know, remember
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Josh Allen made the big leap from year one to
year two in terms of accuracy, and then by year
three he was like, holy shit, this is a totally
different football player. Can Anthony Richardson make that kind of leap?
I don't know I personally, you know, I guess Jones
could win the job, but my money would probably be
on Anthony Richardson. I don't know if the culture could
be good enough to be a playoff team. But if
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you're asking me now, who are my you know, seven
playoff teams as free agency, and there's still some pieces
to go. But I would say most of the important
guys who will swing a game a division, a playoff spot,
most of them are off the table. I don't even
know if Anon Rodgers is still in that discussion, but
in the NFC, I would say the seven playoff teams
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as of now, again, we still got the draft to
go Philadelphia. I think Washington's going back to the playoffs.
I'll skip the North for a second, I'll skip to
the West, and I'll just go Rams. I'm gonna put
a pin in the Niners until the party deal's done,
just in case something wacky happens that they don't actually
get him, and I will go with is it two
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ballsy to go Carolina? I mean, they did have a
minus one to ninety three point differential, worse than the
NFC by a lot. They did end the season strong.
Is it too bold to take the Panthers to win
the division? I mean, Falcons, they've improved the pass rush.
I just I don't Michael Pennix. We'll see. Maybe that's
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the Falcons. It's gonna be Bucks, Falcons or Panthers. Just
one team for that division. It will not be the Saints,
and I think so I we're going two three four, Yeah,
So if we leave the Niners out, I could take
three from the NFC North. I do believe the Vikings,
who have gone heavily into the trenches. I think their
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investment will pay off. And I'm a believer in McCarthy
and Kevin o'connells. So I like the Vikings to win
that division. I think the Lions and Packers will fight
for second, and I think the Bears will be right
there battling them. I mean, that could be a division
where some a good team wins nine games to get shafted.
Is that Detroit who lost both coordinators. Is that Green Bay,
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which I don't know, just didn't really impress at at
any point last season, or could it be the Bears
making the leap up with Ben Johnson. NFC to me
is tougher to peg AFC, I feels a little easier.
I think Buffalo's a lock in that division. I don't
have anyone else going to the playoffs. I'll skip the
North because it's loaded. Actually I'll skip the South too,
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I'll go right to the West. I believe the Chargers
or Broncos will win that division. I love the Broncos
pillaging old players from the Niners. You know, you get
veterans who, if they're healthy, Holy cow, whu funga green
law like lookout, Okay, Broncos are gonna be good. I
do believe the Chiefs pull back. Well, we they ten
to zero in one score games. I don't even Maybe
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the Chargers with the division, maybe the Broncos. Chiefs are
a playoff team I have obviously I will go. I
really want to take the Titans to win that divis.
Texans are going to have like four new offensive linemen.
Don't know what to do with the Colts Trevor Lawrence healthy.
I don't know what the hell's going on there? Why
not the Titans if they get kill mort that divisions
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up for grabs. And then in the North, obviously I
have Ravens, I do not have Steelers, I do not
have Browns. And I do think Joe Burrow gets back
to the playoffs. So it's early and we'll revisit this.
I will look at futures bets to potentially make, but
I do think I'll take a couple of long shots
to win the division AKA Denver, maybe Tennessee. You know,
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you want to avoid the hot teams that everybody's talking about.
I think a lot of people are going to be
on the Bears. I don't think many are going to
be on the Vikings after losing Sam Darnold, I think
a lot of people will bet on the Bengals. I
don't think many people are gonna be on Carolina. But
could Carolina actually deliver that division? And if you're getting
a little spicy, but it's all about March madness now.
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