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Mike Florio and Dan Haren

Monday, October 23, 201715 takes

NFL Week 7 and the Fastest 2 minutes in Football ( - ). Contenders/Pretenders and Who's Back Of The Week ( - ). Football Guy of the Week ( - ). Mike Florio joins the show to talk about all the NFL story lines including Ezekiel Elliot, Teddy Bridgewater, and his Fantasy Team ( - ). Former MLB Pitcher Dan Haren joins the show to talk about the World Series, what it's like game planning for the Dodgers and Jose Altuve, and whether or not he's a Big Baller ( - ). Segments include Locker Room Talk for Kyrie Irving, Trouble in Paradise for the Phoenix Suns, Kings Stay Kings for Vontaze Burfict and Man Card for New Orleans Saints.

Fastest Two Minutes

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Big CatBig Cat

The Chicago Bears are for real

The Bears are for real. Never meant to make Cam Newton cry. See his outfit. What a real weird guy. John Fox has his team playing John Fox football, which means he takes his back, back, back, back, back to a time before Bradbury Robinson and the forward pass didn't exist.

The 2017 Bears finished 5-11 and last in the NFC North, so they were definitely not 'for real'.

Recap

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Millennials are ruining football because their brittle bones are not breastfed long enough

It's millennials that are ruining football, but with their brittle little bones, they're not breastfed until a proper age, and so they all get hurt.

This is a satirical health claim that is biologically absurd.
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Take Slip·Oct 23, 2017
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The Atlanta Falcons are officially pretenders

The Falcons are pretenders. They are officially in the pretenders pile. You know what's great, too, is I think they started like 2-0 and everyone was like, see, told you, the Falcons do not have a Super Bowl hangover. Now you see them. They are mentally just broken.

The Falcons actually went 10-6 and won a playoff game in 2017, proving they weren't total pretenders, though they didn't reach the Super Bowl again.
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Losing the Super Bowl is better than winning because you avoid the Super Bowl winner hangover

You know what my favorite take of the week might have been? It was one of the Boston sports guys. They said that it's almost better to lose the Super Bowl because you don't get a Super Bowl hangover if you lose it. And so it didn't really work out that way this weekend.

Statistically, losing a Super Bowl often leads to a worse following season (the 'Super Bowl Loser's Curse') than winning it.

Who Is Back

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Take Slip·Oct 23, 2017·Who's Back
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College football is more fun when Notre Dame is good

Notre Dame is back. And it's going to be fun. It's going to be fun to watch Notre Dame get their hopes all the way up. College football is significantly more fun when Notre Dame is back.

Notre Dame's status as a 'back' team is subjective, and their impact on viewership/fun is also a matter of opinion.

Interview

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Hue Jackson is this generation's Norv Turner or Wade Phillips

I think with [Hue] Jackson, it's just a matter of time at this point. He strikes me as this generation's Norv Turner or Wade Phillips, who is very good as a coordinator, good enough to keep getting head coaching jobs, but bad enough as a head coach to not hold those jobs.

Hue Jackson finished his Browns tenure 3-36-1, widely considered one of the worst head coaching stints ever, confirming Florio's 'good coordinator, bad head coach' assessment.
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Teddy Bridgewater will start more games than Aaron Rodgers for the rest of 2017

Which quarterback starts more games from here on forward in 2017, Aaron Rodgers or Teddy Bridgewater? Teddy Bridgewater. He's ready to go. Week 10 is what they're looking at.

Rodgers returned for one game and Bridgewater played in one game (briefly) for the rest of the 2017 season. They both started/appeared in very little, but Rodgers actually started more games (1 to 0 for Teddy).
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Sam Bradford will never play for the Vikings again

I don't think [Sam Bradford] is ever going to play again for the Vikings. I think it's Bridgewater when they think that there's an opening to put Keenum down and put Bridgewater in.

Bradford only appeared in two games in 2017 and never played for the Vikings again after that season, moving to the Cardinals in 2018.
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Ezekiel Elliott has a chance to beat his suspension entirely

There's a chance [Ezekiel] Elliott beats this whole thing, not just this year, but this year, next year, and for good. Right now, it actually looks good for him to get an injunction that would allow him to play all season.

Elliott eventually lost his legal battle and served his full 6-game suspension starting in November 2017.
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Take Slip·Oct 23, 2017
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The Patriots and Seahawks will meet in the Super Bowl

Right now, if I had to pick two teams for the Super Bowl, I'd say the Patriots and the Seahawks.

The Patriots made the Super Bowl, but the Seahawks failed to make the playoffs entirely in 2017.
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Dan HarenDan Haren

Clayton Kershaw will never 'suck' in the playoffs again

When are we going to see playoff Kershaw where he just sucks and gives up mammoth home runs and we all get to laugh on Twitter? Never.

Kershaw had several more high-profile playoff struggles after this (e.g., 2019 NLDS vs. Nationals, 2023 NLDS vs. Diamondbacks), though he did win a title in 2020.
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The Dodgers will beat the Astros in six games

Dan Heron on the record, Dodgers in six.

The Astros won the 2017 World Series in 7 games.
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Lonzo Ball will have 24 points, 8 rebounds, and 6 assists tonight

I'm going to go ahead and say Lonzo Ball tonight, 24 points. Eight rebounds, six assists.

In the game on Oct 22, 2017 against the Pelicans, Lonzo Ball had 13 points, 8 rebounds, and 13 assists. He got the rebounds exactly right but missed the points and assists.

Locker Room Talk

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Kyrie Irving telling a fan to 'suck my dick' was worth the $25,000 fine

Kyrie got fined 25,000 that's not that much totally worth it to say suck my dick to fan yes absolutely yeah... Saying suck my dick in Philly is like the nicest thing you can do. That's the Philadelphia hello.

Whether it was 'worth it' is entirely subjective to Kyrie's bank account and personal satisfaction.

Trouble In Paradise

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John Calipari will be the next coach of the Phoenix Suns

Now that they fired their coach and there's trouble in paradise, you think of what I'm thinking? Coach Cal. Brandon Knight, Eric Bledsoe, Devin Booker, Tyler Ulis... All went to Kentucky.

Calipari stayed at Kentucky until 2024; he never coached the Suns.