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Mark Titus on Trae Young, Duke's Duffel Bags, and LeBron's Time Travel
The draft process is officially underway, and as the world’s premier Josh Allen podcast, Big Cat and PFT are already hard at work ensuring their tall king with the massive hands goes exactly where he belongs. After measuring in with ten-and-one-eighth inch mitts at the Senior Bowl, the vision is clear: Josh Allen is the future of the NFL because he simply looks the part in shorts.
Big CatJosh Allen is going to be the number one pick in the NFL Draft
Josh Allen is the quarterback's quarterback. He's tall, big hands... and he is going to be the number one pick because we have endorsed him as the number one Josh Allen podcast.
PFT is also keeping a close eye on the quarterback market, specifically the man who is eternally one year away from greatness. If Josh Allen is the future, then Ryan Tannehill is the perpetual present.
PFT Commenter2018 will finally be the year Ryan Tannehill takes the next step
Ryan Tannehill's next year is going to be the year. He's taking the next step this year. Always taking the next step.
NBA Drama and the LeBron Time Loop
The NBA has devolved into a soap opera, and the Cavaliers are leading the league in petty points. The team held a legendary intervention to confront Kevin Love about his "illness," a move that feels like the lowest point for a locker room in recent memory. Big Cat isn't buying the doctor's note either.
Big CatKevin Love was not actually sick when he left the game against the Thunder
I don't think Kevin Love was sick. I'm going to be the one to say it... I think Kevin Love is maybe like he gets more shit than any other athlete ever. Undeserved shit.
However, nothing compared to LeBron James congratulating himself on Instagram for an achievement he hadn't even reached yet. Writing a letter to his younger self while referring to himself as "Young King" in the fourth person is a level of psychological warfare usually reserved for Christopher Nolan movies. It was a masterpiece of unintentional comedy that only LeBron could provide.
PFT CommenterLeBron James' Instagram post to his younger self is the most unintentionally funny thing ever
Every single time you read something [LeBron James] posts, it is like the most unintentionally funny shit that you will ever hear in your life... He invented fourth person. It's him referring to himself, but in the past.
Meanwhile, in Milwaukee, Giannis tried to save Jason Kidd’s job, but even the Greek Freak couldn't overcome the reality that Kidd’s coaching was a bit of a disaster.
Big CatJason Kidd was an objectively terrible coach for the Milwaukee Bucks
Jason Kidd was, by all objective measurements, a terrible coach.
Mark Titus and the State of CBB
College basketball expert Mark Titus joined the show to explain why Duke is suddenly the "cool" destination for every top recruit in the country. While the rest of the world wonders how Coach K is cleaning up, Titus suggests it might have something to do with the duffel bag industry.
Mark TitusDuke is cheating to land the top recruits in college basketball
I seriously do think Duke is cheating their ass off. It's amazing to me that Coach K has kind of brainwashed the rest of the country that if this happened literally any other school, people would start screaming about how they're cheating... Duke is landing the top three guys, and they're not paying anybody? No.
Titus also broke down the Jeff Capel dynamic, suggesting that whoever follows Coach K is essentially a sacrificial lamb designed to fail before the "real" successor arrives.
Mark TitusJeff Capel will be the 'buffer' coach after Mike Krzyzewski retires and will be fired almost immediately
He's [Jeff Capel] going to get hired after Krzyzewski, and then he's going to get fired almost immediately, and then they're going to bring in the real coach. You've got to have that buffer after a legend.
As for the actual games, the Trae Young mania is reaching a fever pitch, but Titus warned that the Oklahoma show might have a very short run in March because they simply refuse to guard anyone.
Mark TitusOklahoma and Trae Young will not make the Final Four because of their defense
Is Trae Young, like, can Trae Young take Oklahoma to a Final Four? No, I don't think [so]. One, I don't think the defense is good enough... In a single elimination, they just don't play good enough defense.
Despite the Big 12 being a gauntlet, the guys discussed why most of those teams are too flawed to actually make a deep run. Instead, Titus is looking toward the Main Line, where Jay Wright has built a juggernaut that looks better than everyone else, even if they live and die by the arc.
Mark TitusVillanova is clearly the best team in the country
I think [Villanova] is clearly the best team in the country, and they have like six guys who would start on virtually any team, which is kind of incredible to think about.
Hot Seat/Cool Throne and Sabermetrics
In a terrifying edition of Hot Seat, Big Cat identified the Amazon no-employee stores as the literal beginning of the end for the human race. We are all just walking into Big Brother's grocery store and handing over our data for the convenience of a sandwich.
Big CatAmazon's no-employee stores are the beginning of the robot takeover
Amazon opened its first no-employee store... I'm pretty sure this is exactly how the robot takeover starts... I think we're all fucked. So this is basically 1984. This is Big Brother. It exists, but it exists in supermarkets.
On the Cool Throne, Hank is looking forward to Patriots fans being the moral compass of the NFL when they head to Minnesota for the Super Bowl. After the horror stories coming out of Philadelphia, New England fans are ready to show the world what class looks like.
HankPatriots fans will be the classiest fan base in Minnesota during Super Bowl LII
[The Patriots] are going to be the classiest fan base in Minnesota because Minnesota people are coming back to Minnesota with tragic and horror stories about how mean the Philadelphia fans were to them. So it's going to be exciting to see if they try and do anything back to Philly fans next week.
Finally, Big Cat found a Super Bowl stat that might make the game itself unnecessary. The Patriots are wearing white, and in the world of NFL sabermetrics, that's basically a guaranteed ring.
Big CatThe Patriots will win Super Bowl LII because they are wearing road white jerseys
The team wearing white jerseys has won the Super Bowl in 12 of the previous 13 seasons... Patriots are 3-0 with wearing white jerseys... Should we even watch the Super Bowl? Probably not. I'm just going to bet Patriots money line.
The show wrapped up with a life-altering Guys on Chicks debate about the anatomical reality of a drinking straw. While Hank tried to argue for the existence of two holes, the guys eventually realized that a straw is just one long, continuous absence of plastic.
PFT CommenterA drinking straw only has one hole
I think it's one hole... Straw is the sphere... the hole starts and it just goes on forever. If you go in a tunnel, are you saying there's no hole in a tunnel? No, the entire tunnel is a hole. That's one hole.
If you can’t trust a man who pees in a sink, who can you trust?
