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Jim Harbaugh, Grit Week 2024, Olympics + The Mt Rushmore Of Things Were Too Old For

Monday, August 5, 202413 takes

Grit Week 2024 is here and we’re live from the RV to kick off the week. The buy new clothes every day plan has already hit a snag (-). We talk Olympics, the incredible 100 meter dash, Scottie Scheffler and more. NFL Top 100 makes no sense (-). Who’s back of the week including the White Sox 20 game losing streak and RFK’s best story (-). Coach Jim Harbaugh joins the show live from Chargers Training Camp to talk grit, football, being back in the NFL, the time he created a made up rivalry trophy, getting into the cold tub with his khakis on and tons more (-). We finish with the Mt Rushmore of things were too old for (-).

Intro

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Take Slip·Aug 5, 2024
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Big CatBig Cat

The Bengals at 13 to 1 are the best value on the Super Bowl odds board

Super Bowl odds. Bengals 13 to one. That's what jumps out. Ooh, I like it. That's what jumps out.

The Bengals finished 4-13 and missed the playoffs in the 2024 season, making this a losing value bet.

Olympic Update

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Take Slip·Aug 5, 2024·Olympic Update
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Big CatBig Cat

Djokovic is the undisputed GOAT of tennis after winning Olympic gold

Djokovic is the goat. One gold big deal. On Clay beating Nadal. Beat, beat the whole country of Spain.

Whether he is the GOAT is subjective, but his 24 Grand Slams and Olympic gold make this the consensus statistical view.

Nfl Top 100

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Take Slip·Aug 5, 2024·NFL Top 100
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Big CatBig Cat

Any NFL Top 100 list that doesn't have Patrick Mahomes at number one is insane

Tyreek Hill was named number one NFL player... And Patrick Mahomes is number four... I don't understand this list... You can't have a top 100 list of NFL players and not have Patrick Mahomes number one. Correct. Right now Mahomes should be number one.

Subjective ranking, though Mahomes is widely considered the best player in the league by analysts.
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Take Slip·Aug 5, 2024·NFL Top 100
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

NFL fans will hate the new kickoff rule at first simply because it is new

My prediction for this NFL season, I think people are gonna really hate the kickoff. 'cause we hate new things until like, we just get used to it and then we're like, oh, it's fine. It's basically the same.

Fans and commentators spent much of the 2024 season complaining about the lack of big returns and the 'ugly' look of the play, proving him right.

Who Is Back

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Take Slip·Aug 5, 2024·Who's Back
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HankHank

Team USA failing to medal in 3x3 basketball is a national disgrace

Our three on three basketball team got eliminated. Didn't medal... Disgraceful so bad... I don't even know. How the fuck is this possible? Also, why don't we just send our, why isn't Jalen Brown in three and three?

The US men's 3x3 team did indeed finish last in their pool and failed to qualify for the knockout round.
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Take Slip·Aug 5, 2024·Who's Back
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

John Gruden is secretly advising the Chiefs and is effectively on their coaching staff

John Gruden was at Chiefs practice today... he was wearing a Chiefs uniform and he was advising Chiefs coaches. Whoa. So I think John Gruden might be secretly on the Chiefs' coaching staff now. He's like Mid-hat right now with the Chiefs.

Gruden did spend time as a 'consultant' at training camp, though never officially joined the staff due to his ongoing litigation with the NFL.
Win
Take Slip·Aug 5, 2024·Who's Back
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Big CatBig Cat

The 2024 White Sox are a historically bad anomaly, worse than the 1940s Phillies

The Chicago White Sox who are on a 20 game losing streak... If you just erased their 14 game losing streak and their 20 game losing streak, they would still have the worst winning percentage in baseball this year... Only two managers in baseball history have at least 200 games managed for the same team, and a winning percentage under 333... Pedro Grifol and a guy named Dr. James Prothro, who managed the Phillies during World War II.

The White Sox finished with 121 losses, the most in modern MLB history, and Pedro Grifol was fired shortly after this episode with a historically bad winning percentage.
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Take Slip·Aug 5, 2024·Who's Back
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HewyHewy

The Sherrone Moore NCAA text deletion scandal won't be a big deal in a week

He [Sherrone Moore] deleted a couple text messages in regard to Connor Stalions and his possible knowledge on the situation... 52 text messages... I don't think anyone's gonna talk about this in a week from now.

The news did remain a major talking point throughout the 2024 season and into the release of the Stalions documentary, so it didn't disappear in a week.

Interview

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Take Slip·Aug 5, 2024
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Jim HarbaughJim Harbaugh

Nothing makes you feel more like a man than winning an away game in terrible weather

To overcome an opponent, overcome them in their stadium and to overcome them in their stadium with the elements, then I would say Yeah. There's nothing that would make you feel more like a man than that.

This is a subjective personal philosophy.
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Take Slip·Aug 5, 2024
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Jim HarbaughJim Harbaugh

Joe Hortiz is the best talent evaluator in football

Joe Hortiz, my brother said, I would love Joe... He undersold it, he undersold it. I, I, I, he's the one of the best evaluators in the game. I don't think there's anybody better after going through this off season in draft with Joe Hortiz.

Subjective opinion on a GM's quality, though early results for the Chargers' 2024 rookie class (Ladd McConkey, etc.) were positive.
Win
Take Slip·Aug 5, 2024
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Jim HarbaughJim Harbaugh

I admit I was dead wrong about chickens being a nervous bird that shouldn't be eaten

Getting chickens? Raising chickens from chicks... I was eating a chicken something... and he [Brian Jennings] goes, yeah, he really shouldn't eat chicken. And then he, he, he was the one who explained to me that chicken chickens were a nervous bird... I maintained that... I went back. I was wrong. We're good. I was wrong. I, I think I, I was dead wrong.

The speaker is admitting a previous take was incorrect and updating his stance.
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Take Slip·Aug 5, 2024
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Jim HarbaughJim Harbaugh

My plan is still to coach football and then die

All you cared about was, I wanna play football for as long as I can play football, then coach football, then die. Has there been any change in that? [Harbaugh:] No. Still on track. Still on track. God willing and the, and the creek don't rises. You know, we're, we're on track. That's it.

This is a statement of personal intent and career planning.

Mount Rushmore

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Take Slip·Aug 5, 2024·Mt. Rushmore
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MaxMax

I miss the ability to drink heavily without getting hangovers

Drinking without getting hungover. Right. Like I just used to like not get hangovers. And that's, and that's basically what I'm saying.

Subjective personal experience of aging.