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Blake Bortles Wikipedia Club Oscar Preview and the NBA Trade Deadline
The NBA trade deadline has officially come and gone, and while the rest of the world was waiting for a Woj bomb, Big Cat was busy mourning the absolute incompetence of the Chicago Bulls front office. Between the Bulls' aimless rebuilding strategy and the Celtics' refusal to push their chips into the middle for Jimmy Butler or Paul George, it was a day defined more by what didn't happen than what did.
Big CatThe Bulls front office members Gar Forman and John Paxson are morons for their trade deadline approach
The Bulls, my Bulls made a trade, and they're morons per usual. They're doing the old, we're trying to rebuild on the fly, which has never worked... Doug McDermott and Taj Gibson to the Thunder is not a Woj bomb. That's just a guard and Pax are fucking morons.
While the GMs were busy doing nothing, the guys noticed a glaring hole in the reporting landscape. Adam Schefter, the titan of NFL news, was nowhere to be found on the NBA circuit, leading PFT Commenter to question if we're looking at a classic case of a system player in the media world.
PFT CommenterAdam Schefter is a system newsbreaker who can't report NBA trades
It's a really tough day, though, for Adam Schefter. He got scooped on every NBA trade today. He didn't report a single one of them. So you got to think, is Adam Schefter a system newsbreaker?
March Madness and the Pitino Timer
College basketball is heating up, which means it’s time for the annual tradition of everyone pretending this is finally the year Gonzaga doesn't choke. Big Cat isn't buying the hype, even with their new roster of Australian and European big men, while PFT Commenter is ready to ride with the Bulldogs all the way to the finish line.
Big CatGonzaga will burn out in the NCAA tournament like they always do
Gonzaga's going to be fun to watch when they burn out in the tournament. I know that every other Gonzaga team just made their bones by beating up little high school teams in front of 2,000 people... this Gonzaga team is [supposedly] different [but they will burn out].
PFT CommenterGonzaga will not lose another game before the NCAA tournament
No, they're not going to lose. They're not going to lose again. People are waiting to shit on Gonzaga so hard. Right. You know what? This is Gonzaga's year.
Meanwhile, Rick Pitino is back in the news after getting chirped by UNC fans. The guys played a high-stakes game of "how long can we talk about Rick Pitino without mentioning his 15-second performance in an Italian restaurant," which, predictably, didn't last very long.
The Blake Bortles Wikipedia Club: Oscar Edition
Blake Bortles joined the show from Southern California for a meeting of the Wikipedia Club. After a casual lunch double date with Matt Ryan—where Blake wisely avoided mentioning 28-3—the trio dove into an Oscar preview based entirely on reading the Wikipedia pages of movies they haven't actually seen.
PFT CommenterWikipedia pages are better than the books they are based on
A lot of nerds out there like to say, oh, the book was better than the movie. Guess what? The Wikipedia page was better than the book. Correct.
Big Cat has high hopes for *Moonlight*, mostly because he understands the psychology of the Academy voters. He also went all-in on *Hidden Figures*, despite a slight conflict of interest involving the show's boss, Peter Chernin.
Big CatMoonlight is the favorite to win Best Picture because Hollywood loves movies about poor people
Moonlight's my favorite to win, and here is why... Hollywood loves movies about poor people. They just love it because it makes [them feel] like, oh, wow, look at these people struggling. We can really relate to that, all of us in our Hollywood bubble. Let's wear tuxedos and talk about poor people.
Big CatHidden Figures is a secret prequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey and the Terminator franchise
So it's technically a prequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey. These three women, they invented Hal, the evil computer. And they invented Skynet. This is actually the pre-prequel to Terminator 1 and 2.
Big CatHidden Figures is the best movie of the last four to five years
I haven't seen this movie, but I want to see this movie because it looks unbelievable... If they don't give this one the Oscar, I might boycott the Oscars. Yeah, well, it's head and shoulders above anything else that's been made in the last five or six years... I'm giving it a 101 out of 100.
When the conversation shifted to the Best Actor and Actress categories, things got personal. Blake Bortles revealed he’d give a hall pass for Ryan Gosling, while Big Cat made a definitive stand on the definitive hottest woman in cinematic history.
Big CatRachel McAdams in Wedding Crashers is the hottest any woman has ever been in a movie
I'm going Rachel McAdams just because I would throw it out there that Rachel McAdams in Wedding Crashers is like the hottest woman has ever been as a character. She was wifey material there.
PR 101 and the Spinzone
Jameis Winston provided some unintentional comedy this week with a motivational speech to elementary schoolers that sounded more like a 1950s finishing school lecture. The guys offered some PR 101, suggesting Jameis just lean into the "puppet show" defense next time he tells women to be silent and polite.
PFT CommenterJameis Winston telling women to be silent and polite is hypocritical because he was told he had the right to remain silent
Well, it's a bit hypocritical that people are jumping down Winston's throat. When he was told that he had the right to remain silent, nobody said anything about it. But now he's telling women that, and I guess that's not fair.
In a legendary Spinzone, the guys analyzed Aaron Hernandez’s lawyer's new strategy of blaming marijuana for murderous tendencies. Hank proposed an alternative legal theory that might just be crazy enough to work if the jury consists of enough "boys being boys."
HankAaron Hernandez's lawyer should argue the murder was just a game of 'Fuck, Marry, Kill' that went too far
If you look at the facts surrounding that murder, right? He was with his fiancee... he was also with a friend who was a female... and then there was a guy that he killed. So it could have just been a game of 'Fuck, Marry, Kill' gone way out of hand.
To wrap things up, Skip Bayless earned a Kings Stay Kings for his galaxy-brain take that Bill Belichick isn't actually a great coach because he’s had the benefit of having a quarterback. PFT Commenter agreed, noting that true greatness is winning a Super Bowl with a Joe Flacco type, or at least showing enough alpha energy to bench 300 pounds at the Combine.
PFT CommenterSkip Bayless is right that Bill Belichick is only a very good coach, not a great one, because he hasn't won without a quarterback
Kings stay kings. He said, I don't think he's a great coach. I think he's a very good one... Bill Belichick has not won a Super Bowl without a quarterback. Not that good. He's good. He's great. He's very good, but he's not great. Right. Exactly.
PFT CommenterThe bench press is the only true measure of an alpha male and a quarterback's locker room command
Mitch Trubisky... he's not benching. I would bench so hard if I was that. That would be the only thing I would train for. That's really the only thing that you can measure man to man is the bench press. Who's the bigger man? How much can you bench? Alpha dog shit. Right, and you're looking for a quarterback? You want a guy that commands the locker room, a guy that benches more than everybody.
If you see a 50-year-old French woman who looks exactly like PFT Commenter walking the red carpet this Sunday, just know she’s probably the favorite to win.
