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Mike Florio from Pro Football Talk

Monday, September 18, 201715 takes

Week 2 Fastest 2 minutes and a recap of the weekend of Football ( - ). Who's back of the week in honor of Texas Football being back for a brief second ( - ). Football Guy of the Week ( - ) . Pro Football Talk's Mike Florio joins the show to talk about Jerry Jones strong arming the league, when will Mitch Trubisky start and Gronk's injuries ( - ). Segments include Hurt or Injured for Sam Bradford, Sabermetrics for Joe Thomas, Locker Room Talk for Floyd Mayweather, Put one in his earhole for NFL players not respecting Fantasy Owners. Stay Woke on Statcast, and Explain it to Big Cat.

Recap

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Take Slip·Sep 18, 2017
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Week 3 is the week we officially find out which NFL teams are frauds

There's a lot of frauds. And week three is who we find out. That's when we know who the frauds are.

This is a subjective framing of the NFL season schedule commonly used by analysts.
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Take Slip·Sep 18, 2017
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Big CatBig Cat

College football is more exciting than the NFL, but it isn't 'better than' the NFL

Saying something is better than is not exactly correct in this case because, yes, college football is more exciting, but it's not better than. I mean, the guys aren't playing defense half the time. People are wide open. The windows are wide open.

This is a matter of personal preference regarding the technical quality of play versus high-variance excitement.
Loss
Take Slip·Sep 18, 2017
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Big CatBig Cat

The Giants will win Monday Night Football against the Lions by a score of 12-10

And now all we get is Lions and the Giants. And the Giants, Eli's going to fucking throw the ball into the ground 100 times. And the Giants are going to win like 12 to 10.

The Lions actually won 24-10, meaning the Giants lost and the score was nowhere near 12-10.

Who Is Back

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Take Slip·Sep 18, 2017·Who's Back
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Matthew McConaughey was meant to be a Californian who happened to be born in Texas

The danger in bringing Matthew McConaughey to Los Angeles is at any given time you might lose him. He might just defect... his natural state is like a caliber [Californian]... He was meant to be caliber. He was just he happened to be born on like a lot of land.

This is a personality assessment that cannot be factually proven.
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Take Slip·Sep 18, 2017·Who's Back
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Big CatBig Cat

Cheating on your wife shouldn't count as cheating if you are under 5'5"

If you're under 5'5", I don't think it's cheating. Yeah, you're fulfilling your natural destiny at that point. You're just shocked that a woman pays attention to you.

This is clearly a joke and not a serious moral stance.
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Take Slip·Sep 18, 2017·Who's Back
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Fullbacks are officially back in a big way in the NFL

Fullbacks are back in a big way... I think it might be confirmation bias, but I've been noticing fullbacks more and more. Specifically, Derek Coleman, the fullback for the Falcons.

While certain schemes used fullbacks, the position has generally continued to decline in overall NFL usage since 2017.

Football Guy Of The Week

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Take Slip·Sep 18, 2017·Football Guy of the Week
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Kyle Shanahan is the most likely coach to be the first one ejected under new NFL rules

I think a sneaky one is Kyle Shanahan because, one, he's a dick. Number two, he's got that entitlement thing, or at least the refs will think he's got that entitlement thing. So if he says one thing that crosses the line, they'll be like, I'm going to teach you a lesson.

Kyle Shanahan has not been notably ejected from games, and ejections for head coaches remain extremely rare in the NFL.

Interview

Push
Take Slip·Sep 18, 2017
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Mike FlorioMike Florio

Jerry Jones is intentionally stalling Roger Goodell's contract to force him out by 2019

And there are some who think that what he's really trying to do is drive such a hard bargain with Roger Goodell that Goodell just eventually says, screw it, I'm out of here when my contract expires in 2019.

While Jones did try to block the deal, Goodell ultimately signed a multi-year extension in December 2017 that kept him in power long past 2019.
Win
Take Slip·Sep 18, 2017
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Mike FlorioMike Florio

The Bears should start Mitch Trubisky now because the season is already lost

At some point, you just kind of say, screw it. You know, this season is lost, so let's just treat it like an extended preseason for next season.

The Bears did eventually follow this path, starting Trubisky in Week 5 of that season.
Loss
Take Slip·Sep 18, 2017
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Mike FlorioMike Florio

The Bengals are the most likely 0-2 team to turn it around and make the playoffs

Out of those, I would say the Bengals... If they get Kaepernick, then put the Bengals in.

The 2017 Bengals finished 7-9 and missed the playoffs.
Win
Take Slip·Sep 18, 2017
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Tom Brady says he'll play until 45 to avoid a public farewell tour

I think he never wants his last year to be known as his last year. I don't think he ever wants to have a Derek Jeter farewell tour... by keeping that stake as far out into the future as possible, he'll never be in a season that anyone would say this is his last year.

Brady did play until 45 (retiring for good after the 2022 season) and famously avoided a traditional season-long farewell tour.
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Take Slip·Sep 18, 2017
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Mike FlorioMike Florio

Teddy Bridgewater will play for the Vikings before the 2017 season ends

I don't know what in the hell they're expecting at this point. So I think, yeah, we'll see Bridgewater before the end of the year on the field.

Bridgewater did return to the field and played in Week 15 against the Bengals, his first action since the injury.

Hurt Or Injured

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Take Slip·Sep 18, 2017·Hurt or Injured
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Big CatBig Cat

Sam Bradford is the first player who isn't 'injured', he is just always hurt

He's [Bradford] not injured. He he's just, injured all the time. He's just always hurt. Yeah, so then you come home after a day of darting and you're like, I'm not drunk. I'm fine... That's what Sam Bradford's knee is. It's the new normal.

Bradford's career was essentially ended by chronic knee issues shortly after this, reinforcing the 'always hurt' label.

Sabermetrics

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Take Slip·Sep 18, 2017·Sabermetrics
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HankHank

Andrew Luck is the NFL's version of Derrick Rose

Andrew Luck, by the way, is now... He's, like, almost, he's not Derrick Rose, but, like, there's that semblance of, like, he could just have a random surgery at any moment without an injury happening

Luck would ultimately retire early in 2019 due to the cycle of injuries, making this comparison quite prescient.

Stay Woke

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Take Slip·Sep 18, 2017·Stay Woke
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Big CatBig Cat

StatCast is a complete hoax and is likely just one guy making up numbers

StatCast is the fakest, fraudest thing ever... Every fucking time, it's just like a ball's hit hard. Oh, it was 119 exit velocity with an angle of 47... It's literally a guy—sitting somewhere probably in like Arizona it's Nate Silver... he's just watching games he's like okay that looked like a hard hit ball 108 miles an hour.

StatCast is a verified system using radar and optical tracking, not a guy in a closet.