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Mac & Bone Show - Lee Sterling Interview · Mac & Bone Podcast

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  Speaker 1: We had a Canes fan on the line. Lee Sterling
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  Speaker 1: is here for all business, baby. He's here to give
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  Speaker 1: you some winners, and he doesn't care if you're from Ohio,
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  Speaker 1: if you're from North Carolina originally, where you move. If
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  Speaker 1: you're from Timbuktu, he doesn't care. He can give you winners.
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  Speaker 1: And let's go through some of these games with Lee Sterling,
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  Speaker 1: our show handicapper, Paramount Sports and ParamountSports.com.
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  Speaker 2: Lee, what's happening, man?
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  Speaker 3: How you doing? I'm good. Actually, I had an interaction
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  Speaker 3: with President Trump at the UFC, the last UFC at Miami.
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  Speaker 3: And we left, and his motorcade was leaving. It wasn't
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  Speaker 3: a motorcade. It was a city. There was probably 200
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  Speaker 3: motorcycle police, 300 cars. I mean... It was a bigger
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  Speaker 3: force than the Iranian army. It's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: It's crazy. The spectacle that that brings. That's what I
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  Speaker 1: break to Waffle House. That's how you roll.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to see. Guys, we're going to see in
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  Speaker 3: the first game if the curse, you know, he's saying
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  Speaker 3: that Tennessee is going to win. You know, when we
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  Speaker 3: start doing this game in a second, is that going
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  Speaker 3: to hold true? Or is Texas, you know, are they
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  Speaker 3: going to? Is he finally going to get a win,
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  Speaker 3: or is Texas going to blow him out?
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's talk about it, because this game is fascinating,
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  Speaker 1: and Texas is right around a five-and-a-half-point favorite in Knoxville.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think? You've already told us what the
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  Speaker 1: president thinks, but we want to know, Lee, what do
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  Speaker 1: you think? What's the right side on this one?
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  Speaker 3: So the line has come down. It has come down
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  Speaker 3: from five-and-a-half to four.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, dang.
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  Speaker 3: So, yeah, it's come down. There's big money. So... Now
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  Speaker 3: we know 36 teams have three and zero records, three,
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  Speaker 3: no records. I think we know the least about Tennessee,
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  Speaker 3: but I was studying their tape of their three games.
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  Speaker 3: I think their offensive line is really good. That war
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  Speaker 3: against the Texas defensive line is going to be a
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  Speaker 3: spectacle to watch. And again, Also, they're going to have
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  Speaker 3: to get more pressure on the quarterback than Ohio State did.
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  Speaker 3: People think of Ohio State as just great defense, but
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  Speaker 3: they allowed Arch Manning 3.83 seconds on average to throw
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  Speaker 3: the football. That's a lot in college football. The reason
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  Speaker 3: I'm having trouble backing Texas here is on the road.
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  Speaker 3: They went five times last year, lost Ohio state. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Not terrible. Then they lose to Florida, which was not
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  Speaker 3: good last year by nine. They lose to Georgia, 35,
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  Speaker 3: 10 blowout loss. and had to go to overtime, just
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  Speaker 3: take it to overtime and win an overtime against the
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  Speaker 3: two bottom feeders in the sec, Kentucky and Mississippi state.
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  Speaker 3: So I, I still, I don't know if arch man
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  Speaker 3: is even a top 10 quarterback. In my opinion, he
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  Speaker 3: led the comeback, but this kid fouls on Brandon. If
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  Speaker 3: he's not forced to go into third and long a
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  Speaker 3: whole lot, I like his pedigree here. I think they
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  Speaker 3: can run some. They have not beaten a number one team, Tennessee,
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  Speaker 3: since 1985. It's going to happen here on Saturday. Wrong
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  Speaker 3: team favored. Tennessee straight up 28-27. Wow. How about that?
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  Speaker 2: What about this ACC matchup? Louisville, 12.5-point favorites at home
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  Speaker 2: over Wake. What's the right play here, Lee?
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  Speaker 3: Well, Louisville finally won a game that was like anywhere
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  Speaker 3: from minus three to plus three. You know, everyone remembers
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  Speaker 3: the Miami win last year, but there was a bunch
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  Speaker 3: of games last year where they faltered. They took care
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  Speaker 3: of business last week against SMU. Now they face a
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  Speaker 3: Wake Forest team. There's not going to be a whole
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  Speaker 3: lot of guys on this team for Wake Forest. They're
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  Speaker 3: going to play in the NFL, but they are a
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  Speaker 3: gutty bunch and they're going to give you all they have.
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  Speaker 3: Louisville does have a weakness. They're 104th against the run.
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  Speaker 3: So I think that Wake Forest is going to run
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  Speaker 3: a lot more than last week. They're going to try
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  Speaker 3: to bleed the clock. Also, the Deeks passing game behind
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  Speaker 3: Gio Lopez here, they're generating 6.5 yards per play. So
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  Speaker 3: I think Louisville is a more talented team, but we've
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  Speaker 3: seen them many times before stumble. I think they're going
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  Speaker 3: to win the game 38-28, but 12 and a half
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  Speaker 3: points is a lot. I'm taking Wake.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I like that, man. And you saw that watching
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  Speaker 1: your Canes last week. That Wake team was gutty and
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  Speaker 1: hung in there, man. We're talking with Lee Sterling, ParamountSports.com.
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  Speaker 1: He's got a game of the week. And how about this?
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  Speaker 1: Louisiana-Charlotte game is the game of the week that he's
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  Speaker 1: going to tell you how to get and how to
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  Speaker 1: get all his picks this week. And we'll get a
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  Speaker 1: Panthers pick from him here on air, as we always do.
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  Speaker 1: But let's go to the Sunday nighter, Rams and Broncos.
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  Speaker 1: I've seen this spread around two and a half in
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  Speaker 1: favor of the Rams. What do you think?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if the right team is favored here.
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  Speaker 3: I know the Rams won that game against the Giants,
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  Speaker 3: but bottom line, as soon as Jackson Dark got injured,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the Giants just basically, that was it for them.
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  Speaker 3: So I think this is a great setup for Denver.
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  Speaker 3: I think they got their confidence back last week, trailing
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  Speaker 3: by Jacksonville, just put the grindstone down, started running the football.
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  Speaker 3: Jonah Coleman, remember the name, Jonah Coleman from Washington, rookie
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  Speaker 3: running back, came in, did a great job. They need
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  Speaker 3: to use him more. And I think they have the
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  Speaker 3: defensive backs that can slow down Devante Adams here. He's
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  Speaker 3: not going to catch 195 yards, even 150 yards in
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  Speaker 3: passes this week. He was facing a horrible Giants cornerback
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  Speaker 3: duo and Puka looks like not going to be able
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  Speaker 3: to play wrong team favored. Here we go. twice in
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  Speaker 3: a row. No, three in a row. We're going Denver
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  Speaker 3: straight up 24, 23. There we go.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting matchup in the NFL between the unbeaten Raiders and the,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the, the rather the high octane offense of
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  Speaker 2: the saints. What's the right side here. Saints favored by three.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. The one in one, almost two and oh saints.
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  Speaker 3: So this is another much improved team. I mean, who
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  Speaker 3: thought we'd be talking about this game here, but Uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, new Orleans, uh, you know, they're just, they're gritty.
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  Speaker 3: I think their passing game is much better color sugar
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  Speaker 3: than people thought it would be. Uh, the Falcons, uh,
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  Speaker 3: were two and O versus the saints last season and
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  Speaker 3: a cousin's quarterbacking Atlanta, uh, uh, ended up beating them
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  Speaker 3: both times. So, uh, uh, he's faced him. He faces
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  Speaker 3: that defense early and often. So he knows Brandon Staley's, uh,
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  Speaker 3: unit and, uh, I just think that Las Vegas right
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  Speaker 3: now with a better running game might be the play here.
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  Speaker 3: Four in a row, Raiders win straight up also, 27-21.
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  Speaker 1: Dang, how about that? We would love that one here, man.
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  Speaker 1: We would absolutely love that one. All right, the Panthers
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  Speaker 1: and Browns game in Cleveland. The Panthers, two and a
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  Speaker 1: half or so, three-point favorites, depending on where you're looking, Lee.
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  Speaker 1: What's your feel for this one?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the last time the Panthers whipped the Falcons by
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  Speaker 3: the score of 30 to a real small number was
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  Speaker 3: the case Sunday, was week three last season, came back
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  Speaker 3: to lose 42-13 at New England. So Panthers, as a
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  Speaker 3: road favorite, starting to pop up more here, three times
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  Speaker 3: so far in the Dave Canales here regime since 2024.
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  Speaker 3: Two and one straight up and against the spread after
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  Speaker 3: last week's minus two and a half blow out here
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  Speaker 3: over the Falcons here. The boys wearing the Brown uniform
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  Speaker 3: here have, have grown very accustomed to being a home
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  Speaker 3: underdog seven and 11 straight up, but in very interesting
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  Speaker 3: 11 and seven against the spread since 2021. So I
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  Speaker 3: think it's going to be a tighter game, but the
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  Speaker 3: right team is favored Carolina Panthers here. I think they're
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  Speaker 3: going to be able to run the ball here all
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  Speaker 3: over Cleveland. 27-20. There we go.
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  Speaker 1: Lee, Lee, Lee, Lee, Lee, Lee, Lee, Lee. Oh, man,
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  Speaker 1: we love it on Lee again this week. All right, Lee,
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  Speaker 1: so let's get down to business, though, for you because
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  Speaker 1: these games are fun to talk about on the radio,
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  Speaker 1: but you've got picks out there. You've got a Charlotte,
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  Speaker 1: Louisiana on Saturday, our 49ers. How are you going to
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  Speaker 1: call that game? That's your game of the week, and
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  Speaker 1: you've got a ton of games. How do they get
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  Speaker 1: your game of the week? How do they get all
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  Speaker 1: your stuff this week?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Louisiana Lafayette lane 10 taking on Charlotte. Is it
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  Speaker 3: a blowout or is it a trap? I love one
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  Speaker 3: side of this game. First 10 callers get it for
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  Speaker 3: free call 800-400-9741 to get Louisiana Lafayette and Charlotte on me. 800-400-9741.
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  Speaker 3: And how about this guys? We've won four straight weeks.
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  Speaker 3: Think about it. The odds on doing that 16 to one.
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  Speaker 3: So you want to make money. This is the week.
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  Speaker 3: And we have done it without a big unit release.
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  Speaker 3: Our first, our first 40 to 50 unit max wager
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  Speaker 3: goes on Saturday on our 40 to 50 unit plays
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  Speaker 3: last 20 years. We're 74 and 32. That's over 70%.
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  Speaker 3: We haven't had a losing day in any sport in
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  Speaker 3: nine days. Just one place, ParamountSports.com. Awesome, Lee.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not lost in nine hours, Lee.
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  Speaker 1: Keep you in nine hours?
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  Speaker 3: You haven't had a loss?
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  Speaker 2: No, I haven't lost.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, that's good.
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  Speaker 3: You're on a roll, baby.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Lee. Good luck to you.
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  Speaker 2: Keep it going, man.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for coming on.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.