Adam Schefter, Combine Week Live From Indy, 8 Year Anniversary Of The First PMT + Vanny Woodhead Is Somehow Back
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
PFT CommenterYou 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.
Big CatCollege 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.
HankRob 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.
Interview
Adam SchefterThe 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.
Adam SchefterThe 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.
Adam SchefterThe 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.
Adam SchefterDenver 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.
Adam SchefterThe 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.
Fyre Fest
Big CatI 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.
Billy FootballTechnically 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.
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