PMT DB
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Ricky Williams on New Football League, NFL Career, and the Sugar Bowl
Week 16 is officially in the books, and Big Cat and PFT are grinding through the playoff scenarios like they're in the situation room at the Pentagon. The Fastest Two Minutes delivered the usual holiday cheer, featuring Kyle Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and a very merry St. Nick Foles, but the real talk started with the AFC playoff picture becoming a total mess for the Steelers.
The Ravens Bully the AFC
The weekend belonged to Baltimore. Big Cat was enamored with the way the Ravens went into Los Angeles and physically dismantled the Chargers using an offense that looks like it was ripped straight out of a black-and-white film reel.
Big CatThe Ravens are the NFL team of the weekend
Our team of the weekend has to be the Ravens. What they did on Saturday night, going to San Diego and beating Phil Rivers and a super hot Chargers team by playing 1940s offense is unbelievable. They do bully ball.
While the Chargers took a tough hit to their seeding, PFT isn't ready to dump his position on Philip Rivers and company just yet, even if the market looks a little shaky.
PFT CommenterI'm not selling my Chargers stock yet
I'm still hanging on to my Charger stock. It's going to turn around just like Bitcoin. I completely agree that was a nightmare matchup for the chargers.
Meanwhile, the AFC East continues to be the most predictable drama on television. The Patriots clinched another division title, largely because the rest of the division has been in a collective coma for two decades. PFT pointed out that the road to Foxborough is paved with the easiest divisional schedule in the history of the sport.
PFT CommenterThe AFC East has consistently sucked worse than any division in the history of sports
The AFC East has consistently sucked worse than any division in any sport in the history of balls. Ever since a ball was invented, no team has had it easier than the Patriots.
Tomlin’s Luck and the Browns' Future
Mike Tomlin is officially on the hot seat after a brutal loss to the Saints. The guys debated whether the Tomlin era in Pittsburgh has reached its natural conclusion, with PFT comparing his current trajectory to a legendary college coach whose luck finally ran dry.
PFT CommenterMike Tomlin is in his 'Les Miles season' where his luck has run out
This is his [Tomlin's] Les Miles season. You can be a shitty coach that makes bad decisions but gets lucky and you'll be fine. But the second your luck runs out, then everyone realizes how shitty you are. In the last four games, all their luck has gone away. I feel like this might be the end for Tomlin.
If the Steelers do pull the trigger, Big Cat has a very specific landing spot in mind for Tomlin based purely on the names of previous coaches in Green Bay.
Big CatThe Packers will hire Mike Tomlin because they need to keep the 'Mike' legacy going
Actually, you know where he'd go. Packers. They need a Mike. They need to keep the Mike legacy going. The Packers would grab him in a second.
On the flip side, the Browns are the feel-good story of the year. Despite being eliminated, the Baker Mayfield era has brought a swagger to Cleveland that makes them the trendy pick for next season. Big Cat is already crowning them as the team everyone will be annoying about come August.
Big CatThe Browns will be the 'Regis Philbin' sneaky team everyone picks to make noise next year
Still a pretty incredible season, the fact that they [Browns] fired their coach and almost made the playoffs. They will now be our Regis Philbin team to make some noise next year. Everyone will pick them. They're the sneaky team.
Ricky Williams in Studio
Football legend Ricky Williams joined the show to discuss his new venture, the Freedom Football League. Ricky is looking to disrupt the traditional model by giving fans actual equity in the teams. It's a wild idea that sounds like a dream for anyone who has ever wanted to legitimately call themselves a team owner.
Ricky WilliamsThe Freedom Football League will give fans who buy season tickets equity in the team
One of our main things is when people buy season tickets, they get part of the team. It'll be like owning a stock. So in the future, if the team is successful and sponsorships are coming in and the league is growing, fans are going to get a check in the mail.
Ricky also got candid about his career, his love for cannabis over the physical toll of football, and why he thinks Kyler Murray is making the absolute correct choice by heading to the MLB diamond instead of the gridiron.
Ricky WilliamsKyler Murray should choose baseball over the NFL
Hell yeah. No doubt. I just think his size and his skill set, I just think it's just a smoother path to baseball. He can play baseball forever. Make more money. Exactly.
Of course, the guys couldn't let a Longhorn legend leave without asking the most important question in college football: Is Texas back? Ricky thinks the answer lies in the upcoming Sugar Bowl against Georgia.
Ricky WilliamsTexas will be 'all the way back' if they beat Georgia in the Sugar Bowl
They [Texas] have this opportunity in the Sugar Bowl to be all the way back. If they beat Georgia, they're officially back. They're all the way back.
New Year's Resolutions
With 2019 right around the corner, the cast shared their resolutions. Big Cat is looking to get athletic, specifically by finally learning a fundamental skateboarding trick after watching *Mid90s*.
Big CatI will learn how to do an ollie on a skateboard in 2019
I would love to do an ollie... I'd love to learn how to skateboard just a little bit. I watched Mid90s the other day. Awesome movie. But I'd love to learn how to skateboard just a little bit.
Hank is focusing on "boulders for shoulders," which led Big Cat to propose a new office rule involving carrying heavy objects back and forth to the studio just to feel the burn.
Big CatI will carry heavy objects between my desk and the studio all year to get 'boulders for shoulders'
The new office, it's probably about 100 feet from our desk to our studio. We should just carry something super heavy, so you have to carry it back and forth. You bring it in, then you've got to bring it back... we're going to start carrying random shit around.
PFT kept his goals more academic, or at least as academic as it gets for him. He’s committing to the bare minimum of cultural enrichment for the upcoming year.
PFT CommenterI will read exactly one book and visit one museum in 2019
I have literally read one book [as a resolution]. That's a lot. I know that's a lot. I can do that. I also read, go to one museum. I have to pay for a ticket and try to learn a couple things in one museum.
The show wrapped up with a Monday Reading about a babysitter in a very strange "make-out only" affair with a father of the house, leading PFT to drop some evolutionary biology truth bombs about why men are wired the way they are.
PFT CommenterMen evolved to nut fast to avoid being killed by woolly mammoths
From a Darwinian perspective, it's actually an advantage. Guys evolved to nut fast. Right. So we can spread our seed and be more efficient so that we don't get killed when we're like having a romantic tryst by a wandering woolly mammoth or T-Rex.
Just remember that if your favorite team misses the playoffs, it's probably because they didn't cut off their eyelids.
