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Speaker 1 (00:05):
This is straight Fire with Jason McIntire.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
What is up, straight fire? Fam, It's me Jason McIntyre.
Straight Fire for Friday, September the nineteenth. Oh boy, listen,
I know we had a decent Thursday night football game. Obviously,
the Bills come out. They do not cover the spread
in the first half or full game, disappointing. I will
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confess I missed a large chunk of this game due
to the season opener in my men's league. And yeah,
I'm gonna confess a little more. I'm so dumb that
I signed up for two basketball leagues. So twice a
week for the next six seven weeks, well maybe eight
or nine including playoffs, I'm gonna be playing hoops in
leagues two nights a week. It's probably gonna be too much,
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so your boy's gonna need some extra rest. But we
got the dub. It was way closer than it should
have been. We led by fifteen most of the way
and then kind of fell asleep and they came back.
But we ended up winning by like seven. But listen,
they fought hard. We've got a really good team. We
are the favorites and you don't care about that, but uh,
We've got about ten to twelve minutes of best bets
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at the end of the podcast. If you missed college
football bets, they were yesterday. By the way, I added,
I finally fired on Texas Tech against Utah. I know
they won't cover, but out of principle I have to,
so hopefully they deliver. So the positive in this game
if you're a Miami Dolphins fan is your team fought
hard and they're driving with what four minutes left down
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seven to try and tie the game. And that was
I think surprising a lot of people because it's like
all Miami stinks, and yes they're ow and three, and yes,
one team that has started oh and three has made
the playoffs this century zero and three is it's really
it's over if you go in three. So Miami fought hard.
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And Buffalo they've done this at times in the Josh
Allen era where they kind of just take their foot
off the gas. It's fourteen seven near the end of
the first half, and they go to kick what like
a thirty nine yard field goal praterer and he just
shanks it. It's like, what that would have been the
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cover for the first half? It was minus seven Miami
gets the ball. Sixteen play, seventy one yard drive, including
three really impressive third down conversions, a third and twelve pass,
a third and ten, and then a third and like
nine run by two.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
So like the.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Dolphins were fought hard. They didn't look terrible. They look competent. Okay,
But as I said, they're driving, there were let's see
it was they had a third and four with five
minutes left, and Tua dump off to waddle. They get
thirteen yards, and you know, everybody's like, oh, well, they
got a shot here, and then first intend at the
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buffalo twenty one and to under heavy pressure, and I
challenge you go look at the replay, guys. It is
so embarrassing. How bad the right guard got whooped. I
mean he got humiliated in like half a second. And
so as a result to a has to throw. Now
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you could argue, hey, listen, time situation. There was three
minutes and four seconds left. Okay, Tua, it's first down,
take a sack, dirt it, throw it away, don't throw
a pick. So he just chucks it to the short
read too. I think it was he was going to
Washington or Wattle, and Bernard steps in front of it.
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I mean, yes, it was a bad throw, but if
you look at the replay, Tua under heavy pressure and
made a bad decision. Listen, trying to tie the game.
Buffalo comes down, by the way, kicks a field goal
and gets the the cover. If you got ten, you
would I have ten minus one twenty nine you got
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the cover. But you know, overall impressive from Miami. My
guess is that they will not be firing Mike McDaniel
here because remember they have until Monday before their next game,
so they've got like extended rest. You could say, hey,
we fire the coach and we promote elevate someone else,
and we have time to like get our books in order.
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I don't think they do that. That's just my gut.
I like Mike McDaniel. I mean, honestly, this guy in
It's funny. I looked at the record, so he and
Dabell took over the same year, and his record is ten.
He has ten more wins than Brian Dabele does in
that time span. He's been to the playoffs twice. I
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know Dabell got to win my Daniel Jones one in Minnesota.
TA has not yet gotten one, but he's had a
good three years. It just I know everybody wants to
sell him because this is what we do. Hey, Mike
McDaniel genius went to Yale. Oh look at me, so smart,
he's amazing. Oh wait a minute, he stinks he lost
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the locker room. Well, it's not like they got a
great roster, guys, they don't have a great roster. I mean,
we were at the point where I saw people speculating
whether or not Buffalo, sorry Miami should do what Denver
did to Russell Wilson, where they were like, hey, you
know what, take a pay cut or we're just gonna
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cut you and take the dead head cap hit. I
was like, what, seriously is it that bleak for Miami?
Did we forget that? Just a couple of years ago,
the Mike McDaniel offense dropped a seventy burger on Sean
Payton's Broncos. Do we forget that? Is he all of
a sudden he's just not an offensive mastermind anymore? Well,
you know, you kind of need an offensive line to
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do that, and they still don't have one. When two
has been healthy, he's been pretty good. I mean again,
that interception was a killer, But I just don't know
what you gain by dumping McDaniel. Now you got the Jets.
Necks that's winnable on Monday and football jetstink. Then you
got Carolina at Carolina, they're not world beaters. So let's
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say you win those two. You don't know if you're
facing Tyrod Taylor or Justin Fields, but neither one of
those guys scare you. And so now you're two and
three with games against the Chargers in Cleveland on the horizon.
It's like, you know, the Chargers will be favored on
the road in Miami, and then Miami at Cleveland. It's
gonna feel like a toss up. So let's not act
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like the season is totally over. They can fight, they
could play spoiler. Let me remind you Joe Burrow is
out for three months. The Kansas City Chiefs are zero
to two, the Houston Texans are zero and two. The
Pittsburgh Steelers have one of the five hoorst defenses in
the league, and they face Seattle and the Jets. So
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let's not act like Miami's totally cooked here. Obviously, getting
to the playoffs is gonna be incredibly difficult, but everybody
knows you need some luck along the way, right. I mean,
if you get the Broncos falling off, it appears as
if Jags, well, the Jags have a win. I don't
think the Colts will keep this up. So let's assume
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one playoff team from the South. I don't think the
Bengals are going to be a playoff team without Burrow.
So now you gotta find another playoff team, Like, somebody's
got to step up and get in the mix. Listen.
I know they have not looked good, but I like
what I saw, and I'm a believer in McDaniel. I'm
telling you guys. Everybody's like, oh, yeah, he's great offensive coordinator. No, no, no, no,
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he's been a really good head coach in Miami. Okay,
they covered the spread in a playoff lost to Buffalo,
and he had his backup Skyler Thompson. And then they
went to Kansas City and it was like negative thirty
five degrees and they lost. And I think they had
an injured offensive line going in that game. At the
memory search, that was an easy bet. It was the
Kansas City Chiefs and Mahomes like, come on, so you
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guys can sell Miami al you want? Yes, did they
stink the first two weeks, Yes, have we not seen improvement?
Going to Buffalo and being in a one score game
with four minutes left like that, to me is impressive.
So I give props to McDaniel and Frankly like, I
like McDaniel, Soby I would take him in a heartbeat
on the Jets. And I know Aaron Glenn Jason, you
got him time. Fine, we'll give eron Glenn plenty of time.
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Ask for Buffalo, Love me some James cook Man got
him in fantasy that guys, he's just dynamic. I just
love watching him play football, you know, he kind of
I'm trying to think who he runs like. Maybe because
he wears four. He just looks thinner and faster than
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Dalvin Cook. Did I think Dalvin Cook? What number did he?
I think?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Did he wear four? Two?
Speaker 2 (09:10):
But it almost feels like James Cook is slithery. Yeah,
Dalvin Cook wore four in Minnesota, but he, for whatever reason,
was like a little bulkier. No, it looked like Dalvin
Cook also wore thirty three. Oh yeah, he did wear
thirty three, but there's a four signed jersey with Cook.
I guess he wore four and then changed to thirty whatever.
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Oh he wore four at FSU two. The skinny number
maybe makes you look quicker and faster and slythery, because
that's what I see with Cook every time he gets hit.
Though I'm kind of wincing, like, please don't get hurt.
You're carrying my fantasy team, and Kinkaid had a good
game for me. I'm also the jackass who dumped Dalton
Kincaid because I wanted to get a defense this week,
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the Falcons defense. Now I'm on it's a ten team
league and I have Tucker Craft, and I know you
don't give a shit about fantasy teams, but I don't
even know if anybody's gonna pick up kin Kaid after
that game. Somebody might, but Bill's are triumphant and it
starts off week three. I recorded best bets earlier because
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I've laid most of them. I didn't touch on Survivor,
so I lost my first Survivor. I'm in multiple Survivor leagues.
The one in Vegas with David Baker. Then I'm in
one on this site called super a Survivor Bowl where
ten thousand of the winner five thousand to charity bragging
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Rights for life. That's how they It's a bunch of
media people. And I did lose an entry with the
Texans of Bastards, and this week in Survivor, let's see
what I have. I think you've got to consider Seattle.
I think you've got to consider the Packers. I would
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be very careful with Tampa, as we'll get to here shortly.
In best Bets, the Bucks offensive line is a mass unit.
I just I don't know, guys, I don't know if
they're gonna get it done. I like Atlanta in Carolina.
If you're looking for big favorites, Atlanta the Packers. Now
both are on the road, which is I see Seattle's
at home. I think most people will take them. I
would personally try to save well, if you burn Buffalo, whatever, fine,
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I would always try to save Buffalo and Baltimore, as
they have a lot of value going forward. And if
you're in a league with a bunch of entries and
you want to like take a flyer on our team,
I mean, you know I would consider, and this is risky.
I don't totally endorse this, but if you want to
be like, let me take a team where they have
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no future value going forward, folks. The Dallas Cowboys have
no future value going forward? Are they losing the Bears
in Chicago? Now, I know this is gonna be a
Ben Johnson like special, but I think Dallas is an
interest flyer this week. I don't know if you could
pull the trigger on Washington with Jayden Daniels even against
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the Raiders, because Marcus Mariota may start, and I think
going forward, this is what This will be the best
week to use the Atlanta Falcons in Seattle because they
will never have any value. Sniffingness Seattle in week fifteen
might have some value. Atlanta is barely over fifty percent
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until Week eighteen, when I believe they're against the Saints,
So strongly consider one of those. But that's only if
you have many entries and you can take a chance
and get a leg up on the field. So that's
where we are now. Hey quick, So many good TV
shoods out there right now. The wife and I are
watching High Potential. Season one was excellent, it's on ABC,
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so you know, it's it's not your typical streaming show.
I enjoy that show thought provoking. I think Terminal List
is the best show I've seen this year. It is
amazing Tim Riggins starring in it. This season does not
have a lot of Chris Pratt. What's the other ones?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (13:21):
I'm watching The Wednesday, which is a little scarier this year.
My kids kind of bailed on it, but I think
Wednesday is good. And then I am watching Hunting Wives,
which is tough because you can't watch that around kids
since it's essentially soft core. There's so much like surprising
stuff in there. I think it's it's fun. I don't
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know if the whys are gonna watch it, They're gonna
think it's trashy. So you know, Tuesday Wednesday is when
you can kind of lay up a little bit on
the NFL, take a break and uh and and stream
some shows. It's it's a good error to stream anyways. Uh.
Here comes best bets for the weekend.
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Here's your best bet.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
All right, let's get to the best bet portion of
the podcast. Week one was awesome, we too less awesome.
Missed a big bet on the Titans, hit a big
bet on the Lions, hit the over on Panthers Cardinals,
and then there was a smattering of other picks that
hit and missed. I think this is a great teaser week.
I gotta start that. I like teasing the Rams up
to nine nine and a half, and I like teasing
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the Cardinals up as well. Cardinals and Niners is a
good matchup, good game. We still don't know if brock
Perty's going to start.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
We'll see.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
I assume it's mac Jones, but I don't think they
run away and hide from the Cardinals. They could certainly
do it, but I don't know that they will, if
that makes any sense. Combo of these teams also Packers,
I think you tease them down for sure. On the
road against the Browns. It's a slightly dangerous game. We'll
talk about it a little more in depth in a moment.
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And I like Seattle probably. I like them to win
a lot, but you know, again, I'll get to that
game in a moment. So if you tease Packers down,
Seattle down, Baltimore down, although Baltimore doesn't go through the
seven and three, it just goes through the three. Obviously,
everybody know that's Monday, so we could talk more about
it on Monday. But Lamar twenty four and two against
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the NFC, he just he dominated. You can't prepare for him.
And are the Lions closer to fifty to twenty against
the Bears or getting smacked around by the Packers And
the answer is probably somewhere in the middle. Of course.
You know, you could make a motivational angle Dan Campbells
showing videos of the last time they were in Baltimore
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got their ass kicked thirty eight to six and it
was thirty five nothing in the third quarter. You could
Dan Campbell can motivate the hell out of them. Being said,
you know, it was kind of a sleepy spot last
week for the Ravens and they didn't look good, but
they still blasted the Browns. But it's the Browns very
very curious if they were able to get after Jared
Goff the way they were able to get after Joe Flackel.
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That'll be interesting, all right, So straight up, I really
really really like and I know you're gonna be sick
to your stomach over this. The Tennessee Titans right loved
them in week one, loved them in week two. One
of those was a hit. The problem, of course, is
the Indianapolis culture. What do we do with them at home?
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They smash Miami, they get lucky to beat the Broncos
with that leverage nonsense, and the Titans row in two.
But then you drill down a little further and instead
of just bashing cam Ward for no stats, you say, oh,
he had to go to Denver. Okay, he had to
go to Denver in his first ever game, which was
a massive challenge. And then after that the Rams came
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to Tennessee, and the Rams have one of the nastiest
fronts in the league, and he was kind of overwhelmed.
Yet it was still a four point game in the
fourth quarter before a fumble by Ward kind of opened
the floodgates. I just don't think the Colts are as
good as advertised. Now, maybe Daniel Jones continues this incredible
run that he's had to start the season. I'm gonna
go ahead and say it doesn't happen. They're off the
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fast track. Will Tennessee be able to bottle up Jonathan Taylor?
Obviously you've got to check the Titans injury report because
in the middle of their defense they have really you know,
Jeffrey Simmons everybody knows is exceptional. But the other guy
who's shown well is Sweat from Texas, the big nose tackle.
You get those two in the middle and it's like,
oh geez, You're not able to really move much. He
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is lightly practicing due to an ankle injury. Elsewhere you
see Lugarious Sneed did not practice due to a back tackle.
JC Latham has a hip injury. These are not great
things for a team this early in the season. That
being said, I'm utterly fascinated by the matchup of Callahan
from Cincinnati where he was ThEC for four or five years,
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against his former DC in Cincy Lou Amaruno. And I
don't know, guys, I think the big edge here is
to Callahan. He knows where the weaknesses are, right, he
knows how to attack the Captain Low's defense. Oh, by
the way, Trevor Lawrence got to the red zone six time.
Sorry not Trevor Lawrence. Bo Nicks got to the red
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zone repeatedly last week in Indy. If bon Nicks doesn't
throw a terrible interception on third down and cost them
a field goal, if the kicker doesn't hit the upright,
I mean they basically they win that game. And all
of a sudden, what is this line? One and a half?
Two maybe, but because of that, all of a sudden,
now you got to pay a Colt's tax. And remember
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the Colts were a short I believe they were a
short home dog against the Dolphins, and then last week
they were a dog against the Colts. Now they're in
a different position, favored to win by more than a
field goal the Indianapolis Colts. I think everybody's drinking the
kool aid. I'm on the Titans getting for and on
the money line. I don't want to do this on
a short week, but I think just I think I
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got a roll with the Houston Texans here. Not not
a big play for me, but if I know they're
zero and two and they've played to you know, Tampa
Bay made the playoffs last year going to the Rams.
That was not easy. The Texans were driving to beat
the Rams before a great defensive play punched the ball
out right. And then last week Texans all they needed
was to stop a Baker Mayfield. Now, the Texans deaf
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not look good, that's undeniable, but their weakness the offensive
line doesn't give the Jagson needs because the Jags defense
is crap. So you know, if this was in the preseason,
what's this line? Texans favored by maybe two, maybe two
and a half. I don't think they are a full
field goal. But remember, the Texans win the division. They
are supposedly the best team in the division. The Jags
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were picked mostly to finish second, third or fourth. So
I think you're getting some value on the Texans here,
and I endorse a play on the Texans. I'm on
the Falcons now, listen. I got it three and a
half earlier.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
This week.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
I like it at four. I like it at five.
I know this sounds crazy, the Atlanta Falcons going outdoors
to face the Carolina Panthers, who have cluster injuries on
the offensive line. Folks, it's the only other offensive line
injuries as bad belong to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. And yeah,
I think you've got to lay it with the Jets
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there as well. I don't hate this. I think it
probably touches six on game day again. You know, I'm
irrationally high on the Falcons this year, and I don't
want to say they blow out Bryce Young company, But
when you've got four offensive linemen down, and let's see here,
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a Falcons injury report looks pretty clean. A J. Terrell's
not going to play, which could mean a good game
for Ted McMillan, the young guy. But I mean that's
assuming Bryce Young's not running for his life. I just
I can't get over how bad the Panthers have looked
against like middling teams. Now, I'm higher than market on
the Falcons, so I believe they go on the road
and I would not be surprised if they won this
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go easily by seventeen. I've seen nothing from the Panthers
that has suggested quality team. They were down twenty seven
to three before the Cardinals last week basically just stopped playing.
I think they were down twenty four to three or
something like that against the Jags. So I can't nobody
can talk me in Carolina being good. I've got to
see it from Bryce Young, and I have not seen it,
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so I like the Falcons. I did bet the Niners
in the rivalry matchup. You know, I'm backing Mac Jones again,
it can be risky. They covered last week, not the
initial number when everybody thought Brock was playing, but they
covered the three, so I think Niners get the job
done at home. I've been disappointed in the Falcons, folks.
I'm not gonna lie like. They just keep coming out
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looking good early and then taking their foot off the gas.
That is a horrible, horrible way to play football. Eventually,
when you're not playing crap teams like the Saints and
the Panthers, They've played literally two of the five worst
teams in the league. Now you step up in class
against a Robert Salad defense. Kyle Shanahan's gonna scheme some
stuff up to get whoever open. I like the Niners.
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I am gonna take the Jets. I don't recommend it,
but again, Tampa Bay sounds like they are playing musical
chairs with backups on the offensive line. It looks very
bleak for the Bucks. I like the Jets six and
a half. I don't care that it's Tyrod Taylor. I
might even play that in the contest because I don't
think anybody's going to be on the Jets obviously. I'm
on the Rams. We've talked about that earlier this week
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if you missed that. And I do like the Seattle Seahawks.
I know seven's a big number against the Saints, and
Sam Darnold has shown nothing so far in Seattle through
two games that says, hey, this guy can win with margin.
That being said, I don't see Spencer Ratler having much
success in Seattle, although there are some interesting numbers about
Seattle falling off a cliff defensively at home and offensively
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like the last the mystique of playing at Luminfield in
the Twelfth Man and all that, that stuff's kind of
sort of gone. They just have not been as dominant
as they were in the Legion of boom Era. And
so yeah, maybe Spencer Ratler pulls off some stuff. I
have gotten burned by Seattle in the past. They're one
of these teams that plays down to their competition, which
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I hate. That's like an Arizona Cardinals trade. It's like,
come on, guys, put teams away, don't play with your food.
The last one, and you know, I'm leaning Chargers. Nothing
there yet, but I think the Browns could be plucky
against the Packers. And I think I'm gonna have the
Browns in the contest as well, mostly because Green Bay
has Dallas next week and Micah Parsons is already getting asked.
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Nobody's asking him about Joe Flacco, Nobody's asking them about
the Browns because they stink. It's all so next week
a Jerry world, you know? And I mean, is there
a world where the Packers kind of overlooked this having
played at the friendly confines of Lambeau for two weeks?
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Quick bit?
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Is this trip to Cleveland? Right? You're down? Jayden reads out? Now,
it doesn't look like Christian Watson's ready yet. They got
injuries galore, And is there a world where they just
take their foot off the gas and don't show up?
Now we know Lafleura comes out of the gates hot
in the first two weeks. Historically, I like Lafleur a lot.
I think they win, But if they're not getting Micah
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to if Mike is getting to Joe Flacco early, this
feels like game over for sure. But if they for
some reason are not locked in and dialed in, and
the dog pounds kind of popping. Can the Browns make
this interesting? Remember Packer's offensive line was down two starters
last week, and a lot of people, like Washington, I
said hell no, So Miles Garrett now has a chance
to do some wrecking at home. I you know, I
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think it's an interesting line. The line has come down.
It was eight and a half, it's it's seven. So
I grabbed a little eight seven and a half, not
a huge one. It's more of a contest play for
me because I'm blatantly honest with you guys as always.
It's just tough for me to drip my after tax
dollars on bad teams and then not see it. Now
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in the contest, it's a different story. You lose with
bad teams. Well, you know, I played the number. I
didn't bet the team. I bet the number. That's what
the pros do. The guys who gamble for a little
you know, Like I get that, but you know, you
put in actual dollars and you gotta you know, settle
up and so for that's not fun when you're betting
all these crap teams. Like imagine if you go to
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War this weekend with cam Ward Joe Flacco, Tyrod Taylor
like that, these are some of the teams you're looking
at backing, but you you have to and ta my guy.
We gotta get him back next week on the Pod,
it feels like week three there is gonna be some
chaos because there's an overreaction of the first two weeks,
specifically the indianapolis Is of the world, specifically the Houstons
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of the world.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Oh these teams stink.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Oh, these teams are great. You know, you get two
data points and now everybody feels like they have a
beat on a team. Oh, the Miami dolphinstink Dolphins look
kind of good last night. I don't know about you guys.
They did not look terribly awful, and I just it
just kind of sort of feels like, I know, we
didn't touch on Chiefs Giants. That could be interesting, or
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the Chiefs could just kick their ass in the next
week and Russell Wilson loses his starting job. I have
nothing on Dak against the Bears yet, I don't know
what to make of it. The Bears have a ton
of injuries on the defensive side, and you know it
can easily make a case that Dak opens up a
can and throws for three hundred and fifty yards away
he did against the Giants. But on the same side, like,
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hey man, why couldn't Ben Johnson scheme up stuff against
a bad Cowboys defense? They couldn't get stops against the
Eagles and got run over by Russell Wilson, Malik Neighbors,
and one Dale Robinson. And then there's oh and two
teams that I'm fading, like the Saints and Panthers just
because I don't think they're good at all. But oh
and two teams like the Titans, I think they're good.
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We know the Chiefs are not going to be horrible,
Houston is a good oh and two team. And then
you know, you look at the Niners Cardinals game that
that is super duper interesting. I can't wait so many
good games this weekend. We had the college plays yesterday.
Check those out on the pod. See you Monday,