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Morgan Cox & Justin Tucker 11/20/16

Sunday, November 20, 201617 takes

NFL Week 11 recap. The Browns are officially eliminated from the playoffs. Football Guy of the Week. The Tiger Woods Memorial Who's Back Of The Week. Morgan Cox and Justin Tucker join us from the Baltimore Ravens to talk about Special Teams, long snapping trick shots, and Joe Flacco. Segments include Kicker's Psychiatrist Couch, Stay Woke, Sabermetrics, Hurt or Injured, Just Chill Out Man for Aaron Rodgers. Hmmm for Adam Schefter not going to Mexico and a new segment "Talk To The Listeners".

Recap

Win
Take Slip·Nov 20, 2016
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I officially called the Browns being mathematically eliminated from the playoffs back in August

I actually broke that news back in August. The second they announced RG3 as their starting quarterback... I said, okay, they've just clinched last place in the AFC. They've clinched the first draft pick, and they're mathematically eliminated right now.

The Browns were indeed the first team eliminated and finished 1-15 in 2016.

Who Is Back

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Take Slip·Nov 20, 2016·Who's Back
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Russell Wilson is a bizarre human being who would be in a mental institution if he weren't an athlete

The person who woke him up every hour and a half, the voodoo people, the hypnotist, the concussion water, the strength coach... he's just a bizarre human being... if he wasn't an exceptional athlete and he did all this shit, he would probably be in a mental institution.

This is a subjective characterization of Wilson's well-documented eccentricities.
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Take Slip·Nov 20, 2016·Who's Back
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Snow football is the key to driving NFL ratings back up

I think that this is absolutely the key to driving ratings back up is get a couple snow games in people will watch snow football all day.

Snow games do consistently draw high viewership, but ratings are driven by many factors.

Football Guy Of The Week

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Take Slip·Nov 20, 2016·Football Guy of the Week
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Nick Saban would actually kill a reporter on camera if it didn't stop him from coaching the next week

Nick Saban actually would kill a reporter, I think, on camera. If he could still coach next week, if he could coach in the Iron Bowl, even though he killed a reporter at halftime, he would do it.

Hyperbolic statement about personality, not a literal prediction.
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Take Slip·Nov 20, 2016·Football Guy of the Week
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Ben McAdoo is a watered-down fraud of a football guy

Ben McAdoo seems like he's trying real hard as a first-year head coach to be a football guy. I think he's overextending himself a little bit. He sounds like a fraud. He's like a watered-down football guy.

Subjective opinion on coaching persona.
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Take Slip·Nov 20, 2016·Football Guy of the Week
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Bill Belichick 100% pays attention to metrics but acts like he doesn't for his brand

He absolutely pays attention to metrics. 100% he does, but he acts like he doesn't. So he's playing a double mind game... he's like I'm going to make them think that I'm even more of a football guy than I really am when behind the scenes I've got my spreadsheets set out.

While Belichick is known for using every advantage possible (including data), his true thoughts on 'metrics' are subjective.

Interview

Loss
Take Slip·Nov 20, 2016
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Butch Jones has Tennessee football headed in the right direction

I love Butch Jones, and he's building the program. It's headed in the right direction... We've planted a lot of seeds, but hopefully one's going to catch on pretty soon.

This take aged poorly as Butch Jones was fired less than a year later following a disastrous 2017 season.
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Take Slip·Nov 20, 2016
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Joe Flacco is an elite quarterback and I have a Super Bowl ring to prove it

Is he elite or what? I mean, yeah. I've got a Super Bowl ring to prove it.

Whether Flacco is 'elite' is the ultimate subjective debate of the mid-2010s.

Kicker Psychiatrist

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Take Slip·Nov 20, 2016·Kicker Psychiatrist
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Kickers are the most psychologically weak people in the world

The problem is we put the most psychologically weak people in a place to do it. Kickers are the most psychologically weak. So we need to put people with stronger minds to become kickers.

Subjective characterization of an entire position group for comedic effect.
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Take Slip·Nov 20, 2016·Kicker Psychiatrist
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NFL teams should just go for two every single time they score a touchdown

Is there any reason why teams shouldn't just go for two every time? No, not at all. Just go for two every time... isn't 50% of two greater than 97% of one?

Analytically, the expected value of going for 2 is often higher, but game context prevents it from being a universal 'correct' play.

Stay Woke

Loss
Take Slip·Nov 20, 2016·Stay Woke
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The NFL and Roger Goodell are making kickers miss extra points to save money on charitable donations

The NFL donates $1,000 to the three core nonprofit partners for every point scored. Roger Goodell... is trying to save a little coin. The NFL ratings are hurting... How can we cut some costs so I don't have to fire you guys on Christmas Eve? We'll get some kickers to miss some extra points. Boom. $11,000 saved today.

Satirical conspiracy theory with no factual basis.

Sabermetrics

Win
Take Slip·Nov 20, 2016·Sabermetrics
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Jacksonville cannot beat teams that are named after big cats

Jacksonville has lost seven straight games to teams that are named after big cats, just like the Jaguars. So it's one of those situations where Superman can beat anybody, but he can't beat Kryptonite because he's from Kryptonite.

At the time, the Jaguars had a long losing streak against fellow feline-mascot teams.
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Take Slip·Nov 20, 2016·Sabermetrics
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Twitter is a perfect representation of what is going on in the world and decides major decisions

Twitter decides major, major important decisions. Twitter is a really good testament to what is going on in the world. Right. Great representation. Everything that everyone's exactly.

Highly sarcastic observation about the influence of social media on corporate decisions.

Just Chill Out Man

Loss
Take Slip·Nov 20, 2016·Just Chill Out Man
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Every quarterback is born with a set number of wins in their body and Aaron Rodgers used his up too early

Every quarterback has a set number of wins that's in their body by the time they hit the NFL... you're born with that number, and then once you lose them all, then guess what? They're gone forever. So Rodgers won too many games too early.

Absurdist biological theory for sports performance.

Hmm

Loss
Take Slip·Nov 20, 2016·Hmm
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Adam Schefter didn't go to Mexico because he's afraid of getting kidnapped because he fits perfectly in a trunk

Maybe because his body is so short and it fits so perfectly in a trunk, he doesn't want to go there and get kidnapped.

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Cruel comedic bit, not a factual claim.

Other

Push
Take Slip·Nov 20, 2016
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I'm jumping on the Cowboys train and betting on them for Thanksgiving, which means they'll probably lose

How long am I going to keep doubting the Dallas Cowboys? They're now nine and one against the spread... I'm going to bet on them Thanksgiving Day. And they're going to get, I don't know if they'll lose, but they're not going to cover the spread.

The Cowboys beat the Redskins 31-26 on Thanksgiving but failed to cover the 7-point spread, making Big Cat partially correct about the cover but wrong about the loss.
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Take Slip·Nov 20, 2016
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Dak Prescott picking up his Gatorade cup proves he is a classy young man

How about Dak Prescott showing his leadership by picking up the cup of Gatorade that he tried to throw away? It's just a class act, a precocious, classy young man.

This is a subjective opinion delivered with extreme irony.