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NFL Trade Deadline Chaos, CFP Rankings, and Johnny Fanta
The NFL Trade Deadline actually delivered some drama for once, mostly because the New York Jets decided to blow up their entire operation. We got to witness Memes go through all five stages of grief in real time as Sauce Gardner was shipped off to Indianapolis and Quinnen Williams headed to Big D. While Memes was busy staring into the abyss, PFT was busy crunching the numbers on the haul of picks Joe Douglas actually managed to bring back.
PFT CommenterThe Jets fleeced the Cowboys in the Quinnen Williams trade
You gotta haul. I would even say memes, I dare say fleeced. I think you fleeced the Cowboys.
While the Jets are stockpiling first-rounders for the 2027 draft, Jerry Jones seems to be living in a different reality. Big Cat couldn't wrap his head around why the Cowboys are acting like they’re one defensive tackle away from a Super Bowl during a season that’s already spiraling. It felt like Jerry was just desperate to make a splash, regardless of the cost or the logic.
Big CatJerry Jones is the biggest loser of the NFL trade deadline
Jerry Jones is the big loser in all of this because he traded for a guy [Quinnen Williams] in on a season that things aren't going well. And then also watched Micah Parsons... it feels like Jerry Jones should have gotten more from Micah Parsons is my big point.
Switching to the college gridiron, the first College Football Playoff rankings dropped, and the committee is already up to their old tricks. The guys were baffled by how the committee is treating the resume of a certain team from South Bend compared to the heavy hitters in the SEC and Big 12. Big Cat isn't buying the logic that a loss to Northern Illinois can be so easily hand-waved away when other teams have more impressive wins.
Big CatNotre Dame should not be ranked ahead of Texas or Oklahoma in the CFP rankings
I do think that the Oklahoma and Notre Dame Texas rankings makes no sense... Notre Dame's best win is against USC and their losses are Texas A&M and Miami... Texas's best win is Oklahoma and Vanderbilt... Oklahoma has also two ranked wins Michigan and Tennessee. Their losses against Ole Miss and Texas... it just doesn't make sense to me why Notre Dame is ahead of those two teams.
We also had to address the Monday Night Football broadcast debacle. Between the Disney and YouTube TV dispute, half the country couldn't even find the game. PFT has a very simple platform for his future presidential run that would solve all these corporate squabbles once and for all.
PFT CommenterNFL games should be free for everyone to watch
Sports should be free. That's my take. When I'm elected president free sports for everybody... It keeps people happy. It's also just the right thing to do.
Johnny Fanta joined the show to do what he does best: bring an insane amount of energy to both football and basketball talk. He broke down why Indiana is the most interesting story in sports right now and why Dabo Swinney might be looking for an exit strategy from Clemson that looks very familiar to college hoops fans.
John FantaDabo Swinney leaving Clemson for a new job would be exactly like John Calipari leaving Kentucky for Arkansas
I think that he is John Calipari going to Arkansas waiting to happen. Because I think things have run their course. You wanna end things in a place where like it wouldn't end pretty... Once you've tasted the top, it's so much harder to stay there. Especially in this climate. So for Dabo, your story's written at Clemson, I think it's probably best for both parties for him to be elsewhere.
Fanta also gave us the blueprint for the college basketball season, which is officially back. While the freshmen like Cooper Flagg and Ace Bailey are getting the hype, Fanta thinks a certain team in the Big 10 is destined to finally finish the job on their home turf in Indianapolis.
John FantaPurdue will win the 2025 College Basketball National Championship in Indianapolis
The boilers have the pieces to, to cut down the nets and could do it in their home state. That gives me chills. [Purdue is my] top [team] right here, right now.
We wrapped things up with Hot Seat/Cool Throne, featuring Hugh Freeze's questionable pre-game golf habits and Big Cat’s mounting suspicion that the New Orleans Pelicans are pulling a Major League-style tank job just to get out of town.
Big CatThe New Orleans Pelicans are 'soft quitting' the season to relocate
The Pelicans are just like soft quitting and gonna probably be in like relocate... they have no promotional calendar for the season... no bobbleheads... they're just soft quitting the Pelicans.
Just remember, if your team is struggling, at least you aren't the Blue Jays, who apparently just suffered the slowest, most painful death in the history of professional sports.
Big CatThe Blue Jays' World Series loss is the worst loss of all time
I think that might be the worst loss of all time for the Blue Jays... the slow burn of the loss where if you're a Falcons fan and you're looking at 28 to three... those happen all in one game. This was 10 days where it just, and you had 3-2 going back home. It's just insane.
See you on Friday for the Week 10 preview and hopefully fewer Jets trades.
