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Dave Dameshek on the Steelers, the Boat's Bench, and Week 7
Week 7 had everything: a missed extra point from the most reliable kicker in history, the Saints looking like a wagon, and a national tragedy involving a Sunday Night Football total that refused to hit. But we have to address the elephant in the room first. Blake Bortles was benched. The engine just needs a little tune-up, but Big Cat and PFT aren't jumping ship yet, especially with Cody Kessler waiting in the wings.
Big CatCody Kessler is a terrible quarterback
Cody Kessler that guy stinks throwing the ball over the place fumbling he recovered his fumble but still interceptions I get it you gotta maybe sit down the boat [Bortles] for a minute it was uh the engine needs a little tune up but good news the next game for the Jaguars is in London and Blake Bortles owns London.
PFT was even less impressed by the backup, noting that the talent gap between the current MVP frontrunner and Kessler is wider than any ocean the Boat might sail across.
PFT CommenterPatrick Mahomes throwing left-footed is better than Cody Kessler
Pat Mahomes throwing with his left foot is better than Cody Kessler.
Hue Jackson and the Browns Mess
Hue Jackson has decided that the best way to save the Browns is to wrestle offensive play-calling away from Todd Haley. This is a bold move for a guy who has won exactly one game in two years while calling his own plays. Big Cat isn't buying the Hue Jackson redemption arc at all.
Big CatHue Jackson is objectively a very bad football coach
From where I'm sitting, [Hue Jackson] is objectively a very bad football coach. Okay? And on top of that... He just blames everyone else when shit goes wrong.
PFT has a better idea for the leadership in Cleveland. Forget the Shakespearean power struggle between Hue, Haley, and Gregg Williams. It is time to let the man with the most trustworthy gut in football take the wheel.
PFT CommenterBob Wiley should be the Browns head coach because you can trust his gut
There is a dark horse candidate that I think America can all get behind, and that is Bob Wiley. If there's ever a coach that can go with his gut, that you should trust his gut, it's Bob Wiley.
The NFC Landscape
The Rams are still the class of the NFL, but the race for second place is getting interesting. The Eagles are struggling with a clear identity crisis after their Super Bowl win, and Big Cat thinks the symptoms are obvious.
Big CatThe Eagles are suffering a quintessential Super Bowl hangover
No, they are a quintessential Super Bowl hangover. Because every game, they're up 17-0. They're like, oh, we got this... but it's these games that they think they've won and they just lose them.
Meanwhile, the Saints are rolling, and the Vikings are finding their stride thanks to a specific wideout who is currently making everyone else look like they're playing in slow motion.
Dave DameshekThe Eagles lack a grinder running back to finish games
It's clear in the fourth quarter that's what [the Eagles] miss with not having Jay Ajayi or LeGarrette Blount. That's going to be a bad thing, and I don't know what the fix is out there on the open market for them to get that guy who can just grind the defense when you need him to.
Dave Dameshek and the Steelers
Our good friend Dave Dameshek joined the show to talk about his Steelers and the general state of the league. He gave us his usual Pittsburgh-tinted glasses view but also dropped some bold predictions about who will be challenging the Rams by the time January rolls around.
HankBoban Marjanovic is not of this world
My who's back is Boban... His clips of him playing are, I mean, I remember people talking about him last year, but this year it's like surreal. He's not of this world. It's like he's playing on a seven-foot hoop.
He also thinks the Super Bowl might just stay in Los Angeles, though not in the way many people would expect given the Chargers' lack of a home-field advantage.
Dave DameshekThe Detroit Lions are a sleeper team for a Wild Card spot
The sleeper team that I was talking about, pointing to for everybody in August, that nobody still is talking about, the Detroit Lions... I wouldn't be surprised if they wind up with a wild card.
NBA Petty Wars and Science
We invented NBA Petty Wars, and the Rondo vs. Chris Paul fight gave us the perfect opportunity to use it. The big debate was whether Rondo actually spat on CP3 while wearing a mouthguard. Naturally, Big Cat and PFT did a science experiment in the studio to see if you can actually spray while guarded. The results? It’s possible, but it’s mostly just a fine mist.
To wrap up the show, we checked in on the World Series. Tommy Lasorda is very much alive and thriving, though PFT thinks a Red Sox victory might be the one thing that finally does him in.
Dave DameshekThe Super Bowl will be the Rams vs. the Chargers
I think, by the way, that that's going to end up being your Super Bowl is the Rams and the Chargers.
If the Boat doesn't start in London next week, we might actually have to investigate the Jaguars for crimes against football.
