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Adam Schefter on the Assault Phone, Matthew Stafford Scuttlebutt, and NFL Report Cards
It is officially Combine week in Indy, which means the guys are back in their natural habitat of hotel lobbies and Starbucks-adjacent nerd fights. PFT was on the scene for the biggest reporter melee in recent memory, witnessing Jordan Schultz and Ian Rapoport get into it over some Matthew Stafford vacation reporting. The irony of Schultz's dad being the Starbucks guy while this went down in a Starbucks was not lost on anyone, even if the "fight" was mostly just towering over each other and calling NFL security.
PFT CommenterThe Matthew Stafford and Tom Brady ski trip was definitely not a coincidence
Jordan Schultz had [the report] that Matt Stafford and Tom Brady went on a nice little cozy ski vacation together... Ian Rapoport came over the top and said I'm told that this was just a coincidence... Can you imagine the coincidence level though of like, you and I happen to run into each other on vacation? I'm just not buying it.
PFT isn't buying the coincidence of Tom Brady and Matthew Stafford running into each other on a fitness retreat. Big Cat, meanwhile, is more focused on the legal ramifications for the Raiders and Rams if this meeting was actually a summit.
Big CatIf Tom Brady explicitly invited Matthew Stafford to his vacation, it is tampering
I think if you can prove that Tom Brady was like, 'Hey, I'm gonna be at Yellowstone Club, come out for the weekend,' then that's tampering. Otherwise, it's gonna be hard to prove.
The Cookie Scandal and Team Report Cards
The NFL team report cards dropped, and while the Vikings and Falcons are the valedictorians, the Jaguars are still dealing with cockroaches and Robert Kraft's plane apparently still has ashtrays from 1994. Big Cat can't understand why these billionaires are being so cheap with the basics that actually help you win games.
Big CatNFL owners are cheap if they have bad locker rooms or bad food
I don't understand how anyone owns a team and gets anything worse than like a B on any of these things. If I had that much money and I owned a team, I'd be tricking out everything... I can't conceptualize an owner of a football team being like, 'Our players don't get to eat on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.'
Big CatNFL fans should have a weighted column to vote on the annual team report cards
Win games. That's the other thing... they actually should do a column here for fans. Fans should get a say in this... just overall vibes.
Speaking of organizational failure, the guys broke down the real reason the Miami Heat Big Three era ended: Pat Riley is a cookie thief. According to Dwyane Wade, Riley confiscated LeBron's personal stash of chocolate chip cookies on the team plane, and that was the moment LeBron checked out of South Beach. Max tried to play devil's advocate, suggesting LeBron's cookies might have been healthy trash, but Big Cat wasn't having it.
Big CatPat Riley is a bad guy for taking LeBron James's cookies on the team plane
LeBron stops playing cards when he finds out his cookies were taken... I would rather someone come and pat me on the head like patronizing words to take someone to take another man's cookies. You're basically saying they're a 4-year-old that didn't eat their vegetables... Pat Riley, bad guy. Real bad guy.
MaxLeBron James' cookies were probably healthy almond-flour trash that tasted shitty
I think they're probably shitty cookies. His chef making his dinner... because he only eats specific healthy shit. So he's probably getting like almond flour cookies and stuff.
National Sports Podcast News
College basketball is entering the month where it actually matters, and Big Cat has already found his favorite bit for the stretch run. Regardless of how many games Kentucky won under their previous regime, every victory now is being framed through the lens of the "Cal would've lost this" agenda.
Big CatEvery game Kentucky wins for the rest of the season should be framed as 'a game Cal would've lost'
I'm addicted to anytime Kentucky wins a game. Just saying 'that's a game Cal would've lost.' It doesn't have to make sense. Cal won a lot of games, but every game that Kentucky wins, we just gotta be like, 'that's a game Cal would've lost.'
Big CatFouling when up three points at the end of a game should be banned
I think we should ban fouling up three. I don't know how they could do it... I like the idea of maybe if you foul up three, they get three shots. There's nothing worse than in a game where a team is up three and it just becomes a foul fest.
Adam Schefter Joins the Show
Adam Schefter made his annual pilgrimage to the show, and we finally got down to the business of the "Assault" phone. After years of hearing about the Miles Garrett tweet, Big Cat has officially negotiated for the actual hardware. The phone that tweeted "assault" is coming to the Barstool office for a permanent museum display, provided the guys can authenticate the metadata.
Adam SchefterThis phone in my hand is the one I used to tweet that Miles Garrett committed assault
I really believe that this is the assault phone. It would be my honor to give you this phone... You can hang it on the wall.
Schefty didn't just bring memorabilia; he brought a flurry of takes on the upcoming quarterback carousel. He expects Matthew Stafford's landing spot to be the first domino to fall before we find out where Aaron Rodgers and Daniel Jones end up starting in September.
Adam SchefterMatthew Stafford's next team will be either the Giants, Rams, or Raiders
I really don't know right now because it's kind of a coin flip kind of thing... [The Giants, Rams, and Raiders] those are the three scenarios that make sense.
Adam SchefterAaron Rodgers will definitely play in 2025 with a chip on his shoulder
I think he's gonna play, he's gonna play and I think he has something to prove in his own mind and think there's gonna be a chip on his shoulder.
Adam SchefterDaniel Jones will be a starting quarterback in the NFL in September
Yes [he will be a starter]. In fact, I've actually had his name come up with head coaches I've spoken to... I think there's a market for him.
Beyond the roster moves, we explored the future of the league's schedule. Schefter is convinced the 18-game season is an inevitability, which will open the door for the NFL to sell off international games as a standalone product, much to the chagrin of everyone who enjoys a normal Sunday morning.
Adam SchefterThe NFL will eventually sell a 12 to 16-game international broadcast package
They get to an 18 game schedule and then the league can take a 12, 14, 16 game international package and sell that... I think that's where it's gonna go.
We also managed to expand the PMT corporate structure. With Jerry O'Connell acting a little unstable regarding his fantasy football management, the guys officially installed Schefter as the "Governing Owner in Name Only" of Jerry's team. Schefter accepted the role, mainly for the power to fire Jerry if the locker room vibes get too toxic.
Adam SchefterI will be the governing owner of Jerry O'Connell's fantasy football team in name only
Governing owner in name only? That sounds fair to me... Blame me [if he is fired]. Everybody else does.
Before letting him go, Schefter gave a glowing review of Jaden Daniels, noting that the young QB is single-handedly masking the organizational issues in Washington.
Adam SchefterJaden Daniels is a special player who will cover up the Commanders' organizational flaws
Jaden Daniels... gets it big time. He gets it. Like that guy is on it... This quarterback covers up a lot of the sins of the organization. Not everybody's at his level... the quarterback is exceptional.
We finished up with Fyre Fest of the Week, where Hank admitted he got scammed by a toll text from a +63 area code. Never pay your tolls through a text message from the Philippines, folks.
