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Matt Ryan on 28-3, NFC South Rivalries, and We Get Mad at a List
Baseball is officially back, which means Big Cat is already finding ways to credit the Cubs' front office for global events. With a 60-game season on the horizon and the DH coming to the National League, the landscape of the sport has shifted overnight. Big Cat is convinced that every move made over the last four years was specifically designed for this exact moment.
Big CatTheo Epstein is a genius for not trading Kyle Schwarber because he knew a 60-game season was coming.
Theo Epstein is a fucking genius. He knew that we were gonna have a pandemic and then a 60-game season and that's why I didn't trade Kyle Schwarber in...
Before getting to the guest, Hot Seat/Cool Throne provided some vintage off-field drama. Tom Brady found himself in the crosshairs for organizing private workouts in Florida despite union warnings, while Ben Roethlisberger decided to get ahead of his legacy by admitting to a past addiction to pornography. PFT sees right through the strategy, noting that Big Ben is essentially using a public confession as a human shield against his own history.
PFT CommenterBen Roethlisberger's porn addiction admission is a genius move to distract from his real past
This was genius by him. Of course everything that he does is genius, right? Be like, I'm not talking about my real past. I'm talking about my porn. And yes, this is the androstenedione in the locker for Mark McGwire that Roethlisberger's bringing.
Atlanta Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan joined the show and immediately proved he's a great sport by leaning into the 28-3 talk. He walked Big Cat and PFT through the sting of that Super Bowl loss and the subsequent years under Dan Quinn. The conversation shifted to his former offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan, whose coaching brilliance is often overshadowed by his questionable choice in leg art.
Big CatI call into question Kyle Shanahan's judgment knowing he has a Chris Simms tattoo on his calf.
Do you call into question [Kyle Shanahan's] judgment knowing that he has Chris Simms' initials tattooed on his calf? ... He tells a story about why they did it and it still doesn't make sense. I mean it just was a bad decision.
Looking ahead to the 2020 season, Ryan is bullish on the new-look Falcons offense. With a roster loaded with former first-round picks, he highlighted one specific addition from Baltimore who might be the league's biggest breakout candidate now that he's in a system that actually throws the football.
Matt RyanHayden Hurst has every opportunity to take off with the Falcons this season.
You take a guy like Hayden Hurst for us... I think he ends up in Baltimore where for no other reason than they just ran the football down people's throat. He just didn't really get that many opportunities and I think him coming in for us has every opportunity to take off.
Big Cat is so convinced by the talent in Atlanta that he's officially planting his flag for the upcoming season. He’s ignored the middle-of-the-road expectations from the national media and is going all-in on a Falcons resurgence.
Big CatThe Falcons are the team that no one is talking about that you should be on the lookout for this season.
I'm officially making the Falcons my team that no one's talking about that you should be on the lookout for next year. Do you always have to have one of those?
Matty Ice also cleared up a long-standing mystery regarding his iconic nickname. While the PR-friendly version usually involves a clutch high school baseball performance, the reality is much closer to what you'd expect from a group of teenagers in Philadelphia with access to a cooler.
Matt RyanMy nickname 'Matty Ice' is definitively from drinking Natty Ice, not from playing high school baseball.
It's definitely from Natty Ice. It had nothing to do with like playing one good baseball game or anything like that. It really started from in high school, just a bunch of idiots being like you got a bunch of Natty Ice beers and being like 'Matty Ice' sounds like 'Natty Ice' and let's go with that.
To wrap up the interview, Ryan didn't hold back on his divisional rivals or his own standing in the NFC South. Even with Tom Brady and Drew Brees in the same division, the Falcons captain isn't conceding the crown to the old guard just yet.
The show moved into a segment where Big Cat and PFT got genuinely worked up over a "Sports Ranked by Difficulty" list that appeared on Twitter. The list had boxing at the top, which led to a breakdown of what actually makes a sport hard to master versus just hard to participate in.
Big CatBoxing at the professional level is the most difficult sport in terms of coordination and stamina
Boxing on top. Yeah. Agreed. Because you could suck at all these sports pretty easily true. But some sports are more difficult to suck at... Boxing at the highest level, I think is the hardest difficulty in terms of everything that's involved: hand-eye coordination, fast-twitch muscles, stamina.
Naturally, the debate turned to the "hardest thing to do in sports," with PFT sticking to the classic argument that nothing beats the difficulty of tracking a 100-mph fastball.
PFT CommenterHitting a baseball is the hardest single thing to do in all of sports
Hitting a round ball going a hundred miles an hour feels like it's harder than hitting a tennis ball with the racket. You always hear... the hardest thing to do in sports is to hit a baseball. I've heard it enough that I believe it.
The real anger, however, was reserved for the ranking of Team Handball. After years of the PMT crew claiming they could assemble a gold-medal winning squad with just a few weeks of practice, seeing it ranked as high as it was felt like a personal insult to their athletic intuition.
Big CatIt is easier to make the US Olympic handball team than it is to bowl a 300 game
What's harder to do: roll a 300 or make the US Olympic team handball team? Absolutely make the US Olympic handball team is easier than rolling a 300.
Don't forget to grab your Shady Rays PMT limited edition sunglasses before they're gone. If you aren't wearing them while listening to the Friday episode with Eric Andre, you're doing it wrong.
