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Adam Schefter on Breaking News Addiction and the Death of the Lakers
It is officially 3-6 Mafia Day and the Lakers are officially dead. Big Cat is pulling out the done chain for LeBron James and company after their latest loss, marking a total failure in Hollywood. While the internet is busy posting fake clips of LeBron not trying, PFT has a more calculated theory on why the King is letting things slide.
PFT CommenterLeBron James is tanking the Lakers' season to lure Kevin Durant to Los Angeles
The one thing I'm keeping an eye on here, I think LeBron might be tanking this season on purpose because KD is going to want to do the opposite thing that he did last time he was a free agent. He wants to go to perhaps the worst team in the league. Right now that looks like the Los Angeles Lakers because they just lost to the worst team in the league two nights ago. So I think that this is LeBron James setting up a long, long proposition here.
With only 18 games left, the math is impossible. The guys are mourning the fact that we won’t get Zero Dark 30-23 this spring, but Big Cat is already looking ahead to the absolute disaster this season has become.
Big CatThe Lakers are officially dead and will not make the playoffs
The Lakers, I'm done chaining them. They are five and a half games back with 18 games to play. They basically have to run the table. They have no chance. They have to run the table to sneak into that last spot. So this is going to be a total failure.
Meanwhile, in the East, the Celtics are a complete enigma. Hank is trying to stay positive despite Kyrie Irving being detached and Jalen Brown calling the locker room toxic. Big Cat thinks Kyrie is just having a standard quarter-life crisis, while PFT is convinced the Uncle Drew persona has actually consumed Kyrie’s soul.
PFT CommenterKyrie Irving is a method actor who has become stuck as the character Uncle Drew
I think he's a method actor. I think when he got into character as Uncle Drew, as like a baby boomer, now he hates all millennials around him. He's a character actor right now and he's still stuck. Andy Kaufman got stuck playing [characters], his mind got messed up. Can you imagine that, playing a character for so long that it starts to affect your brain and everything that you do?
Big J Life with Adam Schefter
Adam Schefter joins the show to talk about the reality of being a news-breaking machine. The conversation gets surprisingly real as they discuss his addiction to the high of a big story and how he never truly gets to go off the clock. The guys also remind him of the time they actually beat him to the punch on the Mike McCarthy firing thanks to a mysterious source known as "The Slug."
Adam SchefterTom Brady is definitively the best quarterback of all time
The best quarterback of all time would be Tom Brady. That would be my opinion. Well, I would back it up with facts. The facts are he's won six Super Bowls. I do have two sources that have confirmed that Tom Brady is the best quarterback of all time. My left eye and my right eye.
Schefty sheds some light on the Robert Kraft situation and how the league handles discipline at the ownership level. While most fans look to Roger Goodell for a hammer, Schefty notes that the power dynamic in the NFL is a bit more complicated when it comes to the guys who sign the Commissioner's checks.
Adam SchefterNFL owners, not Roger Goodell, will decide Robert Kraft's punishment
I don't think it's going to be Roger Goodell that does the things regarding Robert Kraft. I think it's going to be owners that do the things. The fellow owners. Roger Goodell, his bosses are the owners. And I believe his bosses will ultimately decide how the situation is handled.
Hot Seat/Cool Throne and March Madness
Hot Seat/Cool Throne covers everything from Larry the bus driver’s questionable Twitter activity to the Giants’ bizarre front office decisions. Big Cat is losing his mind over New York letting their best defensive player walk while continuing to fund the Eli Manning retirement tour.
Big CatThe Giants are crazy for letting Landon Collins walk for nothing
My hot seat is the New York Giants. So they won't franchise tag Landon Collins. They're going to let him walk. The guy who's 25 years old, made three Pro Bowls, seems to be like the heart of the locker room. So the Giants are letting him walk. And essentially, I think the Giants' plan is to just keep paying Eli forever.
With March Madness right around the corner, the guys are already drawing battle lines. Big Cat is officially back on the Virginia train after they dismantled Syracuse, guaranteeing they won't have another historic collapse. PFT, a noted trends guy, is naturally taking the opposite side of the bracket.
PFT CommenterThe Virginia Cavaliers will lose to a 16-seed again
The Harvard of the South is not in a position to win anything this postseason... They'll lose to a 16. I'm a big trends guy, and right now in their last one, the Cavaliers are 0 for 1 against 16th seeds. I'm going to take the over for the Cavaliers in every single game. They'll only play one.
We wrapped up the show by watching the new Game of Thrones trailer, which apparently features a lot of people looking distraught in the dark, and a classic round of Guys on Chicks involving some very questionable relationship choices.
LeBron might be tanking for KD, but he's definitely still winning at Instagram stories.
