Jon Taffer on His Private Jet, the Death of Craft Beer, and Week 11 Recap
Week 11 provided plenty of chaos, but nothing compared to the Adam Schefter report that the Cleveland Browns were interested in hiring Condoleezza Rice as their next head coach. PFT Commenter immediately launched a new segment titled "Who's Fucking with Adam Schefter?" while Big Cat theorized it was a classic negotiation tactic to make any actual hire look like a home run. Once the actual football started, the New Orleans Saints continued their reign of terror by absolutely dismantling the defending champion Eagles.
The New Orleans Saints are clearly the best team in football right now
The Saints are clearly, in my mind, the best team in football right now. Drew Brees is insane... 21 touchdowns, one interception, 77% completion percentage. The punter for the Saints... he's punted eight times in the last six games. That's insane.
Big Cat was so impressed by the 48-7 shellacking that he officially awarded Philadelphia the "Done Chain," suggesting they might be the worst defending champions in league history.
The Philadelphia Eagles are officially 'done'
The Eagles, I mean, I don't want to jump ahead here, but they're done. They're dead. We're doing done chain on the Eagles. Can we strip them of the Super Bowl championship... because they have not defended it well.
The NFC East's Darkest Day
The most sobering moment of the weekend was Alex Smith's gruesome leg injury, occurring exactly 33 years to the day after Joe Theismann’s career-ending break on the same field. While the injury is devastating for Washington, PFT Commenter noted that the silver lining is the return of the "gamer" Colt McCoy, though Big Cat remains skeptical of McCoy’s ability to lead a game-winning drive when the stakes are highest.
Colt McCoy is a gamer who can tread water but won't win a big drive
Colt McCoy is the type of – he's a gamer. He's going to win you a lot of games like – 21-17, and then when you get to a big moment and you need a big drive, he's not that guy anymore.
With the R-words losing their leader, the AFC South-leading Texans and the NFC North-leading Bears are suddenly the hottest teams in their respective conferences. PFT Commenter is already envisioning a collision course that puts Big Cat’s pinky finger in grave danger.
The 2018 Super Bowl will be the Texans vs the Bears
I see a Super Bowl between the Texans and the Bears. And that would be great content... if you lose and you're a Bears fan and you have to cut your pinky off, it's not that big of an add-on to the crushing defeat.
Big Ben and the Bears
In Jacksonville, the Steelers pulled off a vintage comeback against a Jaguars team that refuses to let Blake Bortles fly. Big Cat pointed out that while James Conner has the stats, the Steelers' offense still lacks the elite receiving versatility of a certain holdout running back.
James Conner has replaced Le'Veon Bell's production, but Bell is still 100% better as a receiver
James Conner made Le'Veon Bell almost expendable. If you watch that game, there were so many times that James Conner just missed a pass or didn't make a play that Le'Veon Bell 100% would have made. And so it's funny that the stats, the running stats are there, but they forget how good Le'Veon Bell is as basically a wide receiver.
Meanwhile, in Chicago, the Bears' defense made Kirk Cousins look exactly like the $90 million man he’s always been in prime time. Big Cat is flying high on the Midway Monsters, even if the rest of the crew thinks he's being a bit of a homer regarding their standing in the NFC hierarchy.
The Bears are the third best team in the NFC
Would you say the Bears are the third best team in the NFC right now as we're sitting here? I mean, they're 7-3.
Jon Taffer: Private Jets and Industry Secrets
One of the program's most successful recurring guests, Jon Taffer, joined the show to discuss his new private jet and his continued dominance in the bar industry. Taffer isn't just flying private for the status; he claims the time saved essentially pays for the aircraft through extra speaking engagements. He also came out swinging against the current state of the beverage industry, specifically targeting what he sees as the corporatization of craft brewing.
The craft beer industry is currently being killed by bankers
Craft beer is getting freaking killed right now. And what's happened in the craft beer world... originally when people started making craft beers, they were into the beer. Now they're freaking bankers that are into the money. So half the craft beers now suck.
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