Harrison Smith, Kyle Rudolph, and Blair Walsh on Vikings Life and Charlie Weis
It is officially October, which means Big Cat is dusting off his puffy vest collection and preparing for the single greatest month on the sports calendar. While PFT Commenter is holding out for June, the logic for October is bulletproof when you consider the overlap of playoff baseball, the NFL grind, and massive college football rivalry weekends.
October is the best month of the sports year.
It's October. Best month of the year. Sports year by far. It's the only month where all four major sports will be in action. You got the MLB playoffs. You have all of rivalry weekends coming up for NCAA football. And NFL is starting to really cook.
Week 4 delivered some absolute chaos, starting with the realization that the Arizona Cardinals might be in serious trouble. Carson Palmer looked every bit like a guy whose carriage just turned back into a pumpkin, while in Denver, the quarterback situation took a weird turn as Trevor Siemian got sidelined.
Trevor Siemian was 'Wally Pipped' by Paxton Lynch.
Also, did Trevor Siemian just get Wally Pipped? Ooh. I think he did. He got Wally Pipped by Bill Paxton Lynch. Put him in a twister.
The Cult of Coach O
Football Guy of the Week was a one-man race this week. After LSU fired Les Miles, interim head coach Ed Orgeron took over and immediately turned the program into a high-energy smash-mouth factory. Big Cat and PFT Commenter are fully bought into the Coach O experience, even if PFT thinks the shelf life of an interim cult leader is notoriously short.
Coach Orgeron is a cult leader whose novelty will wear off because he is not smart enough to sustain success.
The thing with Coach O is he's basically a cult leader, right? He gets in, and he gets these kids really, really fired up because he's got a huge personality... But he's too dumb to be a good cult leader. So, like, the novelty of being in a cult and really enjoying your cult status, like, it's going to wear off pretty quickly.
Speaking of teams "finding a way," Tennessee continues to defy the laws of physics and logic. They are currently the luckiest team in America, but as PFT points out, that luck eventually runs out hard. On the flip side, the guys are ready to declare that Washington is actually a force to be reckoned with again, and Big Cat is officially putting the Falcons back on his "Back" list after Matt Ryan and Julio Jones torched the Panthers.
The Atlanta Falcons are officially back.
I have my who's back, the Atlanta Falcons. Falcons are back. They are back. Last week you had Matt Ryan back, right? Well, no, two weeks, three weeks ago I had Dan Quinn on my hot seat. Then I had Matt Ryan back. Now I have the Falcons back.
Skol Vikes and Charlie Weis's Bling
The guys sat down with Harrison Smith and Kyle Rudolph at the Vikings facility just days after Teddy Bridgewater’s season-ending injury. The vibe was slightly depressing, but they managed to pivot to the important things: Charlie Weis’s recruiting tactics and the horror of Skyline Chili. Harrison Smith confirmed that Weis used to just drop his Super Bowl rings on the table to blind high school kids with the bling.
Kyle Rudolph tried to defend Cincinnati's favorite export, but the guys weren't having it.
Skyline Chili is a prank the city of Cincinnati pulled on the rest of the world.
What do you think about my theory that the city of Cincinnati basically was like, we're going to pull a prank on the rest of the world and tell them that when they come here, they've got to try the diarrhea chili?
Blair Walsh also joined the show to discuss the "Kicker or Concussion" game and his Miami Heat fandom. Walsh is a true die-hard who actually believes Dwyane Wade's legacy in Miami outweighs everything LeBron James did for the city.
Dwyane Wade is the Heat's greatest player of all time, over LeBron James.
I think that Dwyane Wade was our best player of all time, obviously. [LeBron James] gave us two rings, even though he promised eight or seven. But Dwyane Wade was our best player.
Ryder Cup and Tell The Truth Monday
The U.S. finally won the Ryder Cup, and PFT has a very specific theory on why the Europeans folded. It wasn't the putting or the hostile crowd; it was the lack of headwear. The Americans protected their brains from the sun, while the Europeans let their foreheads bake.
The U.S. won the Ryder Cup because they wore hats and visors while the European team didn't.
Could not help but notice that pretty much nobody on the European team wore a hat or a visor. And the entire U.S. team... They were wearing hats, and the U.S. won... It's also probably my favorite part about golf, which is when they take their hats off... and you see the insane forehead tan.
To wrap things up, the guys introduced a new segment inspired by Coach O: Tell The Truth Monday. It got uncomfortable fast. Big Cat admitted to a disturbing 1.5-pint ice cream bender that he tried to hide in the trash under paper towels, but his real truth involved the looming Cubs postseason run.
A small part of me is afraid of what happens to my identity if the Cubs actually win the World Series.
There's like a 1% of my brain that doesn't fully know what to do if the Cubs actually won the World Series. If they don't win, our identity is still intact. I'm the dog chasing a car and I don't know what I would do if I caught it.
PFT followed it up with a scorched-earth take on Vin Scully’s retirement, calling the legendary announcer a coward for not staying in the booth until he reached total senility like Harry Caray.
We'll see if the show survives Turnover Wednesday after these truth bombs.

