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Jeff Fisher + Live from Atlanta for SB 53

Monday, January 28, 201912 takes

We've arrived in Atlanta for Super Bowl Week. Recapping our road trip from NYC, barely surviving a few different moments and stops in Blacksburg and Nashville ( - ) . The Pro Bowl is broken ( - ). Who's back of the week including our first ever sponge bob review ( - ) . Coach Jeff Fisher joins the show for an extended interview about his career, the narrative about his coaching, the music city miracle almost not working, and the time a bear attacked him (  - ). Segments include PR 101 Jon Gruden, Respect The Biz us for being so biased we're unbiased, stay woke, and a Monday reading that gets very creepy.

Recap

Win
Take Slip·Jan 28, 2019
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

The Pro Bowl has reached a point where it is more fun to joke about than to actually watch

I think it's reached a point where it stinks so bad that it's more fun to joke about the Pro Bowl.

The Pro Bowl has since been replaced by the Pro Bowl Games (flag football/skills) due to similar criticisms about the lack of effort in the traditional game.
Loss
Take Slip·Jan 28, 2019
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Big CatBig Cat

The NFL must move the Pro Bowl back to Hawaii to make it enjoyable again

They really need to bring the Pro Bowl back to Hawaii. There's just something about it. When you get everyone in, you know, you get the Maui surf and people wearing Hawaiian shirts and everyone getting laid. And it's just something about the Hawaii stadium. It just brings out Pro Bowl fun games.

The NFL has not moved the Pro Bowl back to Hawaii; instead, they overhauled the format entirely to flag football.
Void
Take Slip·Jan 28, 2019
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Taysom Hill should be a permanent Pro Bowl fixture because he plays with maximal effort

They should have sent Taysom Hill to the Pro Bowl because he would have just gone balls out the entire time. There always needs to be like one asshole trying way, way, way too hard.

Taysom Hill has never been selected for a Pro Bowl, but PFT's point is more about the archetype of player needed.

Who Is Back

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Take Slip·Jan 28, 2019·Who's Back
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Billy McFarland and 'The Situation' will launch fraudulent business ideas together while in prison

It turns out the prison that [Billy McFarland] is going to is the same prison that 'The Situation' is locked up in right now. So the schemes, those two are going to cook up together. They're going to come out of there with like 18 business ideas, 19 of which are fraud.

While both were in Otisville Federal Correctional Institution, there were no reported joint business ventures of a fraudulent nature following their release.
Win
Take Slip·Jan 28, 2019·Who's Back
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Big CatBig Cat

LeBron James wants to reunion with Kyrie Irving on the Lakers

LeBron Instagram storied a song called Rewind and said, 'this is that shit, Kyrie Irving.' ... LeBron James wanted to go back in time, press that rewind button, and have Kyrie on his team.

LeBron did openly court Kyrie multiple times over the following years, though Kyrie eventually joined the Nets and then Mavericks instead of the Lakers.
Loss
Take Slip·Jan 28, 2019·Who's Back
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Coach K will leave Duke to coach LeBron James and Kyrie Irving in the NBA

I'm going to go pro, do the old Pete Carroll, bounce, and then go coach LeBron and Kyrie. I like that.

Coach K remained at Duke until his retirement in 2022 and never coached in the NBA.

Interview

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Take Slip·Jan 28, 2019
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Jon Gruden will struggle with the logistical distractions of the Raiders' move to Las Vegas

[Jon Gruden] doesn't have any idea what he's about ready to go through because... they don't know where they're going to play in 2019 right now... there's the first distraction I think associated with their move.

The Raiders' 2019 season was filled with drama (including the Antonio Brown saga) and they played in Oakland one last year before the move, with Gruden's teams failing to make the playoffs that year.
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Take Slip·Jan 28, 2019
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Jeff Fisher would fight a black bear in self-defense and expects to survive

If an attack is imminent and it's a big bear, a black bear, you're going to defend yourself. ... I would defend myself and hope it would stop biting me.

Inherently subjective as it's a hypothetical survival scenario, though survival experts do generally recommend fighting back against black bears.
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Take Slip·Jan 28, 2019
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Steve Wilks was treated unfairly by the Cardinals and should have been given more than one season

I think it is the fact that a lot of it... I don't like seeing is what happened in Arizona. Because Coach [Steve] Wilks is a good person. And he's a good man. And he needs to be given more opportunity than what he got. One year. Especially when you go into a roster like that.

While a matter of opinion, Wilks' firing after one year is widely considered one of the quickest hooks in modern NFL history.
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Take Slip·Jan 28, 2019
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Early morning NFL meetings are counterproductive for millennial players who don't sleep

Today's guys don't sleep. And so if you're a young head coach and you're listening to this program, don't start your meetings at six. Start your meetings at nine. ... After having breakfast, you get them up six and get breakfast seven, they're done.

Many modern coaches (e.g., McVay, McDaniel) have moved toward later start times or prioritized sleep health, supporting Fisher's logic.

Stay Woke

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Take Slip·Jan 28, 2019·Stay Woke
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The NFC Championship officials from Southern California conspired to help the Rams win

Four of the refs, NFC Championship game, were from Southern California, where the LA Rams reside. ... They waited their whole life for the Rams to come back to LA. Then they were like, now's our time to strike. Then they struck.

The fact that officials were from the region is a matter of record, but the conspiracy of intentional sabotage is unproven and meant as satire.

Pr 101

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Take Slip·Jan 28, 2019·PR 101
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Jon Gruden uses helmet stickers at the Senior Bowl because he can't remember players' names

Jon Gruden clearly is doing this because he can't remember anyone so he's like... just marking everyone with a Raider tag because he was not going to remember who he liked or not.

Purely a subjective/comedic interpretation of a coach's behavior.