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Former NFL OL Geoff Schwartz And CFB Expert Tom Fornelli

Wednesday, December 27, 201717 takes

NFL Week 16 Recap and NFL Week 17 preview amidst our Christmas week food hangovers. Should America be allowed to kick the Titans out of the playoffs? Coach Firing season and we throw out the dark horse coaches to be fired(-). Hot Seat/Cool Throne including an explanation of Cardi B and Offset breaking up then making up(-). Former NFL O-Lineman Geoff Schwartz joins the show to talk about his playing career in the NFL and our new segment "Flaw and Order" where we break down the flaws of all the Super Bowl Contenders.(-) CBS Sports College Football Expert Tom Fornelli joins the show to talk about the College Football Playoffs and why a motivated Nick Saban is the scariest thing in the entire world.(-) Perspective with Lebron James (-), NBA Torch passing update,(-) Mike Greenberg's Dumb Rules fixing NFL Replay(-) and Guys on Chicks(-).

Recap

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Take Slip·Dec 27, 2017
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Big CatBig Cat

The NFL playing games on Christmas Day was bullshit

I think it was actually bullshit that the NFL played on Christmas Day. No, that's an NBA day. It felt so weird. The Steelers and Texans game, that felt like the first Saturday wild card game that no one really wanted to watch. I just felt like it was a little too much. They should have just kept it to Saturday and Sunday.

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Take Slip·Dec 27, 2017
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Big CatBig Cat

The 49ers will be everyone's trendy playoff pick for next season

The 49ers are going to be our Regis Philbin team next year. The Regis Philbin Dark Horse of the Year, where Regis even picks a team as the Dark Horse, that means they're no longer a Dark Horse. Every single person in the world is going to pick the 49ers to go to the playoffs next year.

The 49ers were a trendy pick, but they finished 4-12 in the 2018 season, failing to meet the playoff prediction.
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Take Slip·Dec 27, 2017
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Big CatBig Cat

The Titans should not be allowed to make the playoffs because they are boring

I think as a country we need to have a vote and make it so the Titans cannot make the playoffs. Fuck the Titans. I don't want to see the Titans in the playoffs. No one wants to see the Titans. Just think about this. Would you rather see the boring-ass, shitty-ass Titans losing the first round or Bills fans go crazy because they clinched their first playoff berth in like a billion years.

The Titans did make the playoffs and actually won a Wild Card game against the Chiefs.
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Take Slip·Dec 27, 2017
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

The Panthers' defense is good enough to win a championship

It's actually the Panthers that are my make some noise team out of the NFC. I think that the Panthers' defense is good enough to win a championship. I think that they're really fucking good right now.

The Panthers lost to the Saints 31-26 in the Wild Card round, though their defense was ranked top 10 that year.
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Take Slip·Dec 27, 2017
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Big CatBig Cat

If the Colts don't hire Bruce Arians immediately, they are the dumbest organization ever

Bruce Arians, I think, is going to walk away. And if the Colts don't fucking hire him immediately, they're the dumbest organization ever. Because, like, why wouldn't you fire Chuck Pagano and bring in the guy who actually was a good coach for your team?

The Colts hired Frank Reich instead (after the McDaniels debacle). Reich was successful, and Arians stayed retired for a year, so calling them 'dumb' for not hiring him is subjective but didn't happen.
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Take Slip·Dec 27, 2017
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Bruce Arians will retire for a year and then come back to coaching

I think that Bruce is the kind of guy that he's in Arizona... He's going to walk away, he's going to play like a year of golf, and he's just going to be miserable the entire time... So I think Bruce is actually going to be away from the game for a year and then come back.

Arians retired at the end of 2017 and returned in 2019 to coach the Buccaneers.
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Take Slip·Dec 27, 2017
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Big CatBig Cat

Pete Carroll might walk away from the Seahawks if they miss the playoffs

If they don't make the playoffs, I can see Pete Carroll being like, we're just going to walk away from each other... basically everyone on the Seahawks hates each other, which is not new, but it feels like Earl Thomas is trying to go to the Cowboys.

Carroll coached the Seahawks until the end of the 2023 season.

Hot Seat Cool Throne

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Take Slip·Dec 27, 2017·Hot Seat/Cool Throne
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

James Harrison is a double agent sent by the Steelers to infiltrate the Patriots

I almost think that he's a double agent, that the Steelers sent him in there... To give fake play calls... James Harrison was saying he was so pissed off at Mike Tomlin... It's like that episode of Homeland where Carrie testified that she hated the CIA and then she went to a mental institution.

Harrison played for the Patriots in the Super Bowl that year and did not act as a double agent.
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Take Slip·Dec 27, 2017·Hot Seat/Cool Throne
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Giving Sean McVay credit for the Rams is like giving 311 credit for inventing reggae; it's Jeff Fisher's squad

Giving Sean McVay credit for this team is like giving 311 credit for inventing reggae. This is Jeff Fisher's squad. This is his team. He invented this team.

McVay completely transformed the offense from a bottom-tier unit to the league's best in one year, proving it was not just 'Fisher's squad.'
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Take Slip·Dec 27, 2017·Hot Seat/Cool Throne
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Big CatBig Cat

Debating whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie is the worst argument on Twitter

My other hot seat is people who want to debate Die Hard being a Christmas movie because I do not give a fuck. That actually might be the worst Twitter argument that goes on now. Is Die Hard a Christmas movie? That was like five years ago and it wasn't interesting then and it's still even more uninteresting now.

Interview

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Take Slip·Dec 27, 2017
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Geoff SchwartzGeoff Schwartz

Chip Kelly won't be as successful in his return to college because his system is no longer unique

Chip's going to... coaching in college football again. You think he's going to be just as good as he was the second time around? Probably not. Think about it. Everyone now runs what we ran in college. We were the first team to do this up-tempo, spread offense... Now everybody does it... So he is not going to be coming into a situation with a brand-new concept.

Chip Kelly went 35-34 at UCLA, never reaching the heights he achieved at Oregon.
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Take Slip·Dec 27, 2017
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Geoff SchwartzGeoff Schwartz

The Patriots' defense is a problem because they can't rush the passer consistently

I think their defense is still a problem. They're 31st in yards per play on defense. This is not good enough. And they're going to run into a game where they have to stop a team and can they do it? I just think it's not consistent pass rush. It's every now and then, and I think you need to have more of a consistent pass rush to contend in the playoffs.

The Patriots defense famously failed to stop the Eagles in Super Bowl LII, allowing over 500 yards of offense.
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Take Slip·Dec 27, 2017
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Big CatBig Cat

Case Keenum is the next Kurt Warner and will eventually be a Hall of Famer

Case Keenum is like Kurt Warner in 1999 when everyone was like, come on, Kurt Warner, the backup, this guy, he's no one. Case Keenum is going to end up being a Hall of Famer. I'm squatting on that one. Because I've been saying all year, like, are we really doing this with Case Keenum? And we still are doing it. And he just keeps on rolling and rolling.

Keenum's 2017 was a career outlier; he never reached those heights again and is certainly not tracking for the Hall of Fame.
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Take Slip·Dec 27, 2017
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Tom FornelliTom Fornelli

Josh Rosen is too smart to play for the Cleveland Browns

Between him leaking out that he doesn't want to play for the Browns and between his answer about why he's sitting out and why some players do sit out, I feel like he's way too smart to end up in Cleveland.

The Browns passed on Rosen and took Baker Mayfield. Rosen went to the Cardinals and struggled significantly.
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Take Slip·Dec 27, 2017
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Tom FornelliTom Fornelli

Alabama will win the National Championship

My heart wants to say Oklahoma, but my head says Alabama, just because, like I've said, I think Alabama's the best team in the country... I just don't think anybody's beating Alabama this year... I think they're going to finish as national title champions once again.

Alabama defeated Georgia in the championship game.

Torch Update

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Take Slip·Dec 27, 2017·Torch Update
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Kevin Durant has officially eclipsed LeBron James as the best player on the planet

He [Skip Bayless] says that Kevin Durant has now eclipsed LeBron as the best player on the planet, and Fox News tweeted out the torch has been passed... officially KD is the torchbearer, according to Skip Bayless.

Mike Greenbergs Dumb Rules

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Take Slip·Dec 27, 2017·Greenberg's Dumb Rules
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Big CatBig Cat

NFL replay should be fixed using a 'possession arrow' system from pickup basketball

I think they should just go to a straight pick up hoops thing where no one knows who hit the ball out, so it's like we get the next one. But any, like, controversial call, it's like, all right, you get it this time, we'll get it next time. That's good. I like that. Just keep trading it all year long.