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Jeff Fisher, Drew Brees Breaks Another Record + Guys on Chicks

Wednesday, December 18, 201911 takes

Drew Brees record breaking season is back. MNF is all about Drew Brees and we talk about his career being exceptional while also weird. Booger gave us that MNF telestrator Dong and the Lions are going status quo. (-) Hot Seat/Cool Throne. (-) Coach Jeff Fisher joins us in studio to talk about his life without football, fishing in Montana and chasing Bears, thoughts on social media and why he would love to get back in the game. (-) Segments include this league, (-) PR 101 for our guy Jon Rothstein, (-) way to stay relevant baseball, (-) and guys on chicks (-)

Recap

Win
Take Slip·Dec 18, 2019
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Tom Brady has the only records that matter because of the postseason

If I may step in and do your pod form and say that Tom Brady actually has all the meaningful records when you take into account the postseason as well. So really, this is just on paper.

When including playoffs, Brady had significantly more career passing yards and touchdowns than Brees at the time and at the end of their careers.
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Take Slip·Dec 18, 2019
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Big CatBig Cat

Passer rating is the dumbest statistic of all time

Drew Brees was 29 for 30, 307 yards, four touchdowns, zero interceptions, and he was still 10 points shy of a perfect passer rating. Not good enough for me. It's the dumbest statistic of all time. Not only that, because it's dumb, but it's also someone can explain to me why it's still graded out of 158.3.

Whether a statistic is 'dumb' is subjective, though the math behind passer rating is famously convoluted.
Win
Take Slip·Dec 18, 2019
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Big CatBig Cat

Drew Brees gets lost in the GOAT conversation because he never had a year where he was clearly the best

Drew Brees, though, is a classic case of a guy who just played in an era where there were one or two guys that were always just a little bit better than him. He's never won an MVP... Aaron Rodgers threw 45 touchdowns and six interceptions in 2011... 2013, Peyton Manning threw 55 touchdowns... there was never a specific moment in time where you were like, this guy was the best quarterback in the NFL because he also played against Tom Brady, too.

Brees famously never won an MVP and often finished behind Manning, Brady, or Rodgers in First-Team All-Pro selections.
Loss
Take Slip·Dec 18, 2019
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Jameis Winston will eventually be the all-time NFL touchdown leader

I think it's going to probably be Jameis' award eventually, right? They should just name it after Jameis already. Jameis being the all-time touchdown passing leader is going to be the greatest.

Jameis Winston did not become the all-time touchdown leader. He was benched/became a backup shortly after this.

Hot Seat Cool Throne

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Take Slip·Dec 18, 2019·Hot Seat/Cool Throne
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HankHank

Shitting is an essential mental break during the work day

I feel like the art of going to the back, even in high school before I had a cell phone, I was still just like, let me get out of the class and go take a shit for 30 minutes. It's a mental break. So I don't even know that the cell phone thing would work as much. Like, people back in the day, before cell phones existed, were still taking long shit breaks.

Whether it's an essential break is a matter of personal opinion on work-life balance.
Void
Take Slip·Dec 18, 2019·Hot Seat/Cool Throne
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Big CatBig Cat

Jim Boylen is the worst coach in the history of basketball

Yeah, he is the worst coach in the NBA. He might be the worst coach in the history of basketball... He called a timeout with 33 seconds left in the third quarter to stop the run... there is a timeout that's naturally [between quarters]... He's such a fucking idiot.

Boylen's .317 winning percentage with the Bulls is among the worst in franchise history for a non-interim coach, but 'worst in history' is subjective hyperbole.

Interview

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Take Slip·Dec 18, 2019
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There is no athlete on defense equivalent to Lamar Jackson

There's never been one like Lamar and you know you can just you can tell I mean the defenses are outnumbered and that's the that's the idea... now you can't even, with Lamar, you can't even spy the dude because there's no athlete on your defense that's equivalent to him.

Lamar Jackson won the 2019 MVP unanimously, validating the idea that defenses had no answer for his athleticism.
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Take Slip·Dec 18, 2019
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Jeff FisherJeff Fisher

Analytics ruined the Cleveland Browns

You know, the analytic thing is obviously it's trending right now. We saw what it did for the Browns a few years ago. It ruined the organization because that's what they stood behind. But everybody's interested in that. And basically, analytics are all based on past, based on history.

The 'Moneyball' Browns era led to a historically bad record, though it eventually yielded the draft picks that made them competitive again (Garrett, Mayfield).
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Take Slip·Dec 18, 2019
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NFL coaches are better suited for college recruiting than people think

Someone that says something along those lines with respect to a – directed towards an NFL guy that's looking at college I think is pretty simple-minded because as NFL guys, we're on college campuses all the time during the spring... the attraction to me with respect to the college game is to be able to go get a young man as he enters the university – before he makes some decisions that affect him later in life.

This is an opinion on coaching philosophy and the effectiveness of NFL backgrounds in college sports.

Pr 101

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Take Slip·Dec 18, 2019·PR 101
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I will fight anyone who is genuinely mad about John Rothstein's texts

If you have a problem with John Rothstein texting good luck and most of the time getting left just completely ignored by the coach, come fight us. I will actually punch somebody... open invite to anyone who is mad about this genuinely mad. If you have to actually be mad, we will fight you.

The outcome depends on if anyone actually took him up on the fight (they didn't).

Way To Stay Relevant

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Take Slip·Dec 18, 2019·Way to Stay Relevant
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Pitchers should be required to finish the entire inning they enter

I actually think they should go one further and a pitcher gets in the game and they have to finish the inning. Because it would be so funny watching a pitcher just die out there and give up a million home runs.

This is a rule change proposal and is subjective to personal taste.