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Tom Brady Is Gone + Dr. Anthony Fauci Talking Coronavirus

Wednesday, March 18, 202010 takes

Tom Brady has left the New England Patriots and is signing with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Hank learns about loss and we speculate on who will replace TB12 for the Pats ( - ). NFL QB roulette has begun, and the Bears will screw it all up somehow ( - ). Hot Seat Cool Throne ( - ) The Director for the National Institue of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci joins us to discuss the novel corona virus and what we can do to help stop its spread, what to expect in terms of a future vaccine, and as the federal response to the virus ( - ). We plead with Darren Rovell to seek help, and wrap things up with guys on chicks

Recap

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Take Slip·Mar 18, 2020
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HankHank

Tom Brady leaving the Patriots is heartbreaking but I am mostly reminiscing about the championships

It was heartbreaking but it was more of like I kind of agree with reminisced. I was reminiscing More than I was crying in my Cheerios. . . You can never take away like the six championships.

Subjective emotional state of a fan.
Win
Take Slip·Mar 18, 2020
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Big CatBig Cat

Bill Belichick prefers to part with players a year too early rather than a year too late

I think Belichick has proven throughout the years that he will always walk away from a guy a year too early than a year too late. And in a probably was a situation where he's like, I'm not going to pay a 42 year old quarterback 30 million dollars a year for multiple years.

Belichick famously traded/cut players like Richard Seymour and Lawyer Milloy early. Letting Brady walk fits this established pattern.
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Take Slip·Mar 18, 2020
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Big CatBig Cat

The Chicago Bears will pursue every available quarterback and somehow end up with none of them

The Bears are going to be in on every single quarter back out there and somehow get none of them and completely demolish what little is left of Mitchell Trubisky's confidence to the point where what you'll be gone now.

They actually did get a QB (Nick Foles), but Trubisky's confidence and tenure were indeed demolished.
Void
Take Slip·Mar 18, 2020
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Bill O'Brien is a sleeper agent for Bill Belichick designed to implode AFC teams

I remain convinced this day that Bill O'Brien is a sleeper agent for Bill Belichick as are all of his former assistant coaches that go out across the country take jobs usually in the AFC implode teams and then come back to ensure the Patriots and get to the Super Bowl faster.

Satirical claim that cannot be proven true or false, but O'Brien's tenure in Houston did end in disaster.
Loss
Take Slip·Mar 18, 2020
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Big CatBig Cat

Philip Rivers on the Colts will finish between 7-9 and 9-7

The Colts will be exactly what they were. They will beat a few teams they shouldn't be... and they'll finish the season somewhere between seven and nine with if I was a quarterback in the AFC South, I'd be very happy with the signing.

The Colts finished 11-5 and made the playoffs, outperforming Big Cat's prediction.

Hot Seat Cool Throne

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Take Slip·Mar 18, 2020·Hot Seat/Cool Throne
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Big CatBig Cat

The Buffalo Bills are now the favorites in the AFC East with Brady gone

Another bonus cool throne is the Buffalo Bills because now that Tom Brady's out the division, I think you have to say that the bills are hills country... they might be favored to win.

The Bills won the AFC East in 2020 and several subsequent years, ending the Patriots' dominance.

Interview

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Take Slip·Mar 18, 2020
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Dr. Anthony FauciDr. Anthony Fauci

Young people are not invulnerable to COVID-19 and must help protect the elderly

No one's invulnerable. But even if you are doing very well, you have to be a very important part of our national effort to contain the outbreak but importantly to protect the young individuals. . . This isn't something that can be successful without you.

Medical consensus confirmed that while risk of death was higher for the elderly, young people could still get sick and spread the virus.
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Take Slip·Mar 18, 2020
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Dr. Anthony FauciDr. Anthony Fauci

Recovering from the virus likely provides immunity for a prolonged period

For the most part once you're infected with a particular virus the next time you get exposed if you've recovered from that virus you're protected. . . You can have herd immunity, which means the virus doesn't have a lot of places to go because most of the people in the population are protected.

Natural immunity was confirmed to exist, though its efficacy waned over time and with new variants.
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Take Slip·Mar 18, 2020
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Dr. Anthony FauciDr. Anthony Fauci

Developing a safe vaccine will take at least a year to a year and a half

Safety is paramount. . . We really are on a very very fast track to get a vaccine. But even on the fastest track, it's going to take a year to a year and a half.

The vaccines arrived faster than his 'fastest track' prediction (approx 9 months vs 12-18).
Loss
Take Slip·Mar 18, 2020
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Dr. Anthony FauciDr. Anthony Fauci

The virus could potentially resolve within 8 to 10 weeks if mitigation is successful

In this case for China, it was somewhere between 8 and 10 weeks. That doesn't mean that we're going to have to be doing this for that long period of time... Hopefully if we really carefully and successfully implement these mitigation strategies... we may be able to cut that time down.

The mitigation did not end the pandemic in 10 weeks; it lasted through 2022 in varying degrees of severity.