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Bill Burr on Conspiracy Theories, NBA Over/Unders, and Zion at Duke
Aaron Rodgers is back to his usual tricks, limping around with a knee injury only to throw absolute dimes and break the hearts of 49ers fans on Monday Night Football. While Skip Bayless is taking his victory laps on Dak Prescott outplaying Rodgers, Big Cat is reaching a breaking point with the Green Bay quarterback's predictable heroics.
Big CatAmerica is sick of Aaron Rodgers winning games in predictable, dramatic fashion
He will win a game late, and he will do it in dramatic fashion, and he will drop dimes and all that. I'm sick of it. I think America is sick of it, to be honest, if I'm just going to speak for America here.
Speaking of predictable, the Monday Night Football broadcast continues to provide unintentional comedy. Jason Witten is still struggling with the English language, dropping gems like Rodgers pulling a "rabbit out of his head." Big Cat shared a theory that Witten's presence in the booth isn't even about the viewers.
Big CatJason Witten was hired by ESPN solely to mend the relationship between the network and NFL owners
Jason Witten is in place to mend the ESPN-NFL relationship, which makes sense... they put him in there, and it doesn't really matter if he's bad for the audience. It just matters that the rest of the owners and Roger Goodell likes him.
Beyond the booth, the guys are looking at the state of officiating. After Clay Matthews was surprisingly NOT flagged for landing on C.J. Beathard with his full body weight, PFT suggested that the refs are feeling the heat from the internet.
PFT CommenterThe NFL referees are being bullied by the internet into not calling the game by the rules
The refs are getting bullied by the blogosphere and the twittersphere into not calling the game by the rules. I would have liked to see [Clay Matthews] get penalized for that [hit on C.J. Beathard].
NBA Season Preview and Over/Unders
The NBA is back, and that means it's time for some over/under locks. Big Cat is feeling bullish on Giannis and the Bucks, banking on the Greek Freak's new perimeter game to carry them past the win total.
Big CatThe Bucks will win over 48.5 games and win the Central Division
I have the Bucks over 48 and a half. I think the Bucks are going to be very good. I think they'll win the Central. I think Giannis is going to – do you see he shoots threes now?
He is also going all-in on the King's arrival in Tinseltown. Despite the potential for a midseason Lakers collapse or a LaVar Ball-sized distraction, Big Cat sees a path to 50 wins for the Lake Show.
Big CatLeBron James and the Lakers will win 50 games this season
I have the Lakers over 47 and a half... LeBron's going to win 50 games. I just think there's no way. I think Brandon Ingram is very, very good.
PFT is taking a more analytical approach—or at least, he's following the lead of a legendary gambler recently hired by Mark Cuban.
PFT CommenterThe Dallas Mavericks will win over 34.5 games because they hired Haralabos Voulgaris
I've got my over at the Dallas Mavericks. I'm taking the over on 34 and a half. Dirk I think is out for a little bit... I'm going on this based solely on the fact that they hired that guy [Haralabos Voulgaris] who's a really good gambler to run their analytics department. If you can beat Vegas, then you can beat the Clippers.
Of course, not everyone is feeling the optimism. Hank is leaning into his biases against the 76ers, predicting that health will be the undoing of The Process.
HankThe 76ers will win under 53.5 games because Joel Embiid will get injured
I have the under 76ers, 53 and a half. That's just a pure hate bias. No way they all say healthy. Embiid's probably going to get injured for 75 games.
Bill Burr in Studio
The legendary Bill Burr joined the show ahead of his show at Madison Square Garden on November 7th. Burr is a full-blown sports addict who spent years on the road visiting every iconic stadium just to avoid the loneliness of the "comedy condo." He shared a story about witnessing a sports fan's mental breakdown at a bar on Sunday, which led to a deeper discussion about the unique psyche of Boston fans.
PFT CommenterBoston sports fans don't feel joy when they win; they just enjoy that everyone else feels bad
I'm convinced that Boston fans, they don't feel joy when they win... One, it's relief. And two, it's that they feel good that everybody else feels bad. You guys are desensitized to winning all the time... You like everybody else being a loser.
Burr also isn't a fan of the current high-scoring, no-defense era of football. He reminisced about the days of the Steel Curtain and the 46 Defense, complaining that modern speedsters have it too easy.
Bill BurrThe NFL is effectively becoming seven-on-seven flag football
Tom Brady threw for over 500 yards and lost the Super Bowl... I loved the doomsday defense, the steel curtain... Those guys, they just shut you the fuck down... and it's just all gone. I mean, the fucking guy, Tyreek Hill... runs across the middle of the field... nobody's going to hit him.
Things took a turn into the deep end of the "woke" pool when the conversation shifted to Burr's fascination with conspiracy theories. He didn't come to play with the alien stuff; he went straight for the world banking system.
Bill BurrThe world banking system is essentially a giant Ponzi scheme
I just sort of read up on sort of the banking system... And that'll scare the shit out of you. What is the banking system conspiracy? Well, I mean, it's kind of a big Ponzi scape... If you just read up like the Federal Reserve, it's not really federal. It's a private [bank].
Big Cat and PFT were more than happy to meet him there, offering their own theories on why Elon Musk is always in the news and what's really happening with those ancestry DNA tests.
Big CatElon Musk is likely just a 'beard' or a distraction used to hide Jeff Bezos's surveillance activities
Elon Musk, we have a conspiracy theory that we're working on here is that he is actually a beard for Jeff Bezos... Elon Musk is like the... Everyone's like, oh, these guys, they'll never do anything. Meanwhile, Jeff Bezos is creating robots that are going to deliver packages from Amazon and spy on all of us while Elon Musk... [is distracting everyone].
Zion, the FBI, and the Astros
The guys took a "Hmm" look at the Zion Williamson recruiting scandal. After transcripts surfaced of Adidas reps discussing Zion's camp asking for cash and housing from Kansas, the star recruit famously ended up at Duke. Big Cat offered a perfectly reasonable explanation that has nothing to do with bags of money.
Big CatZion Williamson chose Duke over Kansas solely for the free education
Zion... decided not to go to Kansas for said money or whatever occupational preferences... and instead decided he wanted to go get an education for free at Duke University... Can't a young person just change their mind and say, I'd rather not have money? I'd rather play for Coach K.
PFT also noted a glaring reason why Mike Krzyzewski hasn't been swept up in the FBI's investigation into college hoops.
PFT CommenterCoach K has avoided the FBI investigation because his name is too difficult for agents to spell in reports
Coach K has somehow avoided all sorts of investigations and indictments because his last name is so difficult to spell if you're an FBI agent... you have to type out Krzyzewski probably 400 times... I'm saying no thank you, I'm going to investigate Bill Self.
To wrap things up, the guys discussed the Astros getting caught with a "suspicious man" filming in the Fenway media area and debated whether Nick Bosa is a quitter for shutting it down at Ohio State to prep for the draft.
PFT CommenterNick Bosa is a quitter for withdrawing from Ohio State before the draft
I'm just saying it's a black stain on the OSU program... I kind of think he's a quitter... if you can't play for an egomaniacal lying psychopath [Urban Meyer], why could you ever play for Dan Snyder?
If you're wondering how the world works, just remember that clouds are essentially water balloons and the salt stays in the ocean because it's too heavy to evaporate.
