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Stanford Steve and Tom Crean on Sweet 16, QB Carousel, and Vampire Bats
The NFL quarterback carousel is spinning so fast it’s giving everyone motion sickness. Matt Ryan is headed to Indy, and while the 28-3 jokes will live forever, the move actually makes some sense for a Colts team that just needs an adult in the room. Big Cat and PFT are already picturing Ryan in the Hoosier State, though his face might need a little more rendering before he fits in perfectly.
PFT CommenterMatt Ryan is the most Indiana-looking person in history
He's the most Indiana looking person maybe ever. There's perfect. Like you created a video game character and you stopped halfway through because you didn't really care how much detail you wanted to put on his face.
While the elite guys are getting paid 230 million guaranteed, the middle class of the position is looking pretty grim. Baker Mayfield and Jimmy G are currently stuck in no-man's-land, wondering if they’ll even have a starting job when the music stops.
Big CatThe middle class of NFL quarterbacks is being wiped out
To be a quarterback, never a better time to be a quarterback. If you're an elite quarterback kind of a shitty time to be a quarterback. If you're a 'yeah, but' guy... like Baker Mayfield, where does he go? Does Jordan Love ever get a starting shot? Like Jimmy G... th that second, third, fourth tier of guys, it feels like they basically get a couple shots. And then it's like, all right, we're moving on.
Hot Seat/Cool Throne and Urban's Ego
Hot Seat/Cool Throne featured a classic Urban Meyer deep dive. Following reports that Urban didn't know who Deebo Samuel or Aaron Donald were during his disastrous Jaguars tenure, PFT floated a theory about why Urban keeps having these "health scares" every time things go south. It's less about the heart and more about a bruised ego that can't handle losing at the professional level.
PFT CommenterUrban Meyer's health issues during coaching stints are an ego-driven defense mechanism
I really think that the worst punishment that they could have had for him is not firing them, but just making him continue to coach and lose on the Jaguars... those the the mental issues and like the the fake sicknesses that he would have... his entire ego is built around him being successful and beating people that when there's even just like a small crack in that foundation of him starting to think, maybe you're not as big a winner... he just crumbles.
Big Cat also updated his permanent rule for fan-player interactions. After Jusuf Nurkic tossed a fan's phone, the guys agreed that the only way to solve the pandemic of fans chirping players' families is to let the athletes get one free shot per year.
Big CatEvery pro athlete should be allowed to beat up one fan per year
If we just had my rule of every single player in every sport gets to pick out one fan a year and peat every living shit out of him, sports would be more fun.
Stanford Steve's Sweet 16 Board
Our good friend Stanford Steve joined the show to break down the Sweet 16. After correctly calling Baylor to win it all last year, he’s back with some heavy leans for this weekend. He’s particularly worried about Duke facing a Texas Tech team that is built to turn Mike Krzyzewski’s farewell tour into a bar fight.
Stanford SteveTexas Tech will beat Duke because of their toughness and experience
Really like Texas Tech in this situation because of the experience toughness. And I think they could just make Mike [Krzyzewski] crumble of being with the youth and inexperience.
Steve is also looking at the history of 15-seeds to find some value in the St. Peter’s Cinderella run. While they might not pull the outright upset, the Peacocks have history on their side when it comes to keeping it close against the big boys.
Stanford SteveSt. Peter's will cover the double-digit spread against Purdue
I saw a stat... the last two 15 seeds to go to the sweet 16... Florida Gulf Coast and Oral Roberts... they both covered double digits. Lean St Peter's.
Coach Tom Crean on Tournament Strategy
Coach Tom Crean brought the high-level analysis, fresh off watching about fifteen different games at once. He’s looking at Kansas as the sleeper team that everyone is ignoring because they don't have one single flaw you can exploit.
Tom CreanKansas is the most dangerous team left because they can win in many ways
I'll go with Kansas because I think they have so many guys that can beat you and, and, and they can defend. I mean, they can really defend... they've got some real spurtability that where they can knock you out, because they've got such quickness, they've got such speed. They don't have to rely on any one aspect of the game to beat you.
Crean also highlighted Eric Musselman as the guy most likely to pull a rabbit out of a hat—or maybe something more sinister. When asked which remaining coach would be most likely to use "vampire bats" as a motivational tool, Crean didn't hesitate to point toward Houston's Kelvin Sampson.
Tom CreanKelvin Sampson would be the most likely coach to use 'vampire bats' to motivate his team
I would say Kelvin Sampson and he would bring them, he would bring the vampire bats and put them in a cage and make them fight... I say that with all respect. Cause that guy's fearless. I mean, I love their team.
We wrapped up the show with a legendary Guys on Chicks segment featuring a debate on the legality of changing your child's name after they've already been branded. Big Cat has some very specific rules about the hierarchy of siblings and the 18-month cutoff for identity changes.
Big CatYou can only change a child's name if they are the firstborn and under 18 months old
I think you can change a kid's name up until a year and a half... It also has to be the first kid because you can't, if it's the second kid... my son would be like, what the fuck?
If you aren't ready to run through a brick wall for a 15-seed by the end of this episode, you might not have a pulse.
