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Adam Schefter, Combine Week Live From Indy, 8 Year Anniversary Of The First PMT + Vanny Woodhead Is Somehow Back

Friday, March 1, 202410 takes

We’re in Indy for the NFL Combine and taping exactly 8 years to the day of the first recording of Pardon My Take. We Talk NFLPA franchise grades, Tyreek Hill’s weird lawsuit, what the hell is going on with Meek Mill and more (-). Adam Schefter joins us for his annual in person appearance during the combine to catch up on the past year, talk Draft, breaking Groundhog news and more (-). We finish with Fyre Fest of the week and the insane revelation that Vanny Woodhead is still alive (-).

Recap

Void
Take Slip·Mar 1, 2024
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

You don't want your players to like their strength and conditioning coach

I don't think I'd want my players to give my strength and conditioning coach an A because don't you want like that guy to be the hardest person in the world on you? I think like, you kind of want to hate your strength coach a little bit, right? Like maybe you don't want an F but it getting like a C plus or a B, you want that guy to like push you to be super, super uncomfortable all the time.

This is a subjective philosophy on coaching and player development.
Open
Take Slip·Mar 1, 2024
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Big CatBig Cat

College football will eventually return to regional divisions after the playoff expansion

I still think it's gonna be no different than cable to streaming back to cable where we're bundling all the streaming. Now they're gonna get to a point where they just start making like regional divisions and it's gonna be like, well, okay, so Oregon, Washington USC and UCLA are in a division. Why don't we just call it the PAC four and then we'll get there and then we'll be happy.

The outcome is pending as conference realignment is currently trending toward national 'super-conferences' like the Big Ten and SEC.
Void
Take Slip·Mar 1, 2024
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HankHank

Rob Gronkowski is the second greatest New England Patriot of all time

This player came in, changed everything, just vibes wise. He, he, you know, I think I was 18 or 19 when he, when he signed with the team. So as an 18, 19-year-old, he was everything. Rob Gronkowski, Gronk, spike, freaking nature, the most fun player, you know, non Tom Brady. Greatest tight end of all time. I think he might be the easiest player to root for if you're a fan of that team.

This is a subjective ranking of player legacy.

Interview

Win
Take Slip·Mar 1, 2024
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Adam SchefterAdam Schefter

The Cowboys must sign Dak Prescott to an extension this year to manage the salary cap

I think they have to get something done with him. I mean, he's got a 59 and a half million dollars cap number. They want to get a big deal done with CD Lamb. They want to get a big deal done with Micah Parsons. They want to upgrade their roster. Jerry Jones himself has said they're all in. Well, how can you be all in if your quarterback is taking up that much of the cap? Right. And by the way, if you don't get it done with him, then after the season, you can't tag him. Right. So he could just leave.

Dak Prescott signed a 4-year, $240 million extension on September 8, 2024, just before the first game of the season, fulfilling Schefter's prediction.
Push
Take Slip·Mar 1, 2024
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Adam SchefterAdam Schefter

The presence of Bill Belichick and Mike Vrabel on the market will speed up coach firings next season

I think the fact that [Vrabel's] out there, the fact that Bill [Belichick] is out there, I think it speeds up the coaching firing cycle next season when teams are ordinarily making moves. We get to Thanksgiving. Usually. Sometimes there's a move that is made early in the year. One stray firing, oh, Carolina fired Frank Reich. But usually teams wait till after Thanksgiving and then they start trickling in. I, I think it wouldn't shock me if we started getting stuff like if late, late October, early November, because teams want to go talk to Vrabel. They want to go talk to Belichick.

Firings did occur (Robert Saleh in October 2024, Dennis Allen in November 2024), but as of February 2025, Belichick and Vrabel have not yet been hired as head coaches in the 2025 cycle, though the firings did happen early.
Loss
Take Slip·Mar 1, 2024
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Adam SchefterAdam Schefter

The compensation for a Justin Fields trade will be between a 2nd and a 4th round pick

I think the Justin Fields compensation is somewhere between what Alex Smith got [two 2s] and what Sam Darnold brought. [Sam Darnold] was for a four, a six that year and a four and a two the next year. So three picks. A two, four, and six. And I think that the Justin Fields compensation is somewhere between [those]. So it's like a second and a fourth. A two and a four.

Justin Fields was traded to the Steelers on March 16, 2024, for a conditional 6th-round pick (which could become a 4th), significantly lower than the 2nd round pick Schefter predicted.
Win
Take Slip·Mar 1, 2024
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Adam SchefterAdam Schefter

Denver will move on from Russell Wilson

I think they move on from Russ. I mean, Sean Payton, just read between the lines. Right? I don't even have to read between the lines. I think it's just saying it. Sean Payton's lines are like, he holds up three fingers in a straight line and then he takes the first two down. Between those lines, he's gone.

The Broncos released Russell Wilson on March 4, 2024, shortly after this recording.
Void
Take Slip·Mar 1, 2024
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Adam SchefterAdam Schefter

The Texans likely would have drafted Bryce Young if they had the #1 pick in 2023

If the Texans had lost that game and gotten the number one pick in that Draft, if that had happened, I think they might've taken Bryce Young. And I don't know if they would've traded the pick, which means Chicago wouldn't have Caleb Williams, which means they wouldn't be shopping Justin Fields this year.

This is a counterfactual historical claim that can never be definitively proven, though it aligns with draft-day reporting that the Panthers preferred Young.

Fyre Fest

Win
Take Slip·Mar 1, 2024·Fyre Fest
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Big CatBig Cat

I am going to pimp out Vanny Woodhead and bring the van back to life in Chicago

We are going to get Vanny to Chicago. We have, we're in a different financial situation than we were six years ago. So I'm gonna probably put some money into this Vanny, pimp it out, figure out how to make it technically exist again. And now we'll have Vanny back in our lives. Like this trip to Indy would've been a perfect, let's just hop in Vanny. Yeah. So we're I Vanny is back.

The van was eventually transported to Chicago and 'pimped out' with help from various sponsors, appearing in subsequent videos.
Win
Take Slip·Mar 1, 2024·Fyre Fest
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Billy FootballBilly Football

Technically Vanny Woodhead does not exist and is legally destroyed

Technically it's destroyed. Legally it's chopped up. But I kind of, I couldn't, I didn't have the heart to chop it up, so I just been keeping it. No, one [owns it]. The, it's technically like scrap. It's a ghost car. It just hasn't been scrapped.

While the physical van existed, Billy's claim about its legal status (scrapped) was likely accurate based on his failure to maintain registration/insurance and his instructions to destroy it.