"Ben McAdoo is an aspirational, try-hard football guy rather than a real one" — PFT Commenter

Take Slip·Dec 12, 2016·Football Guy of the Week

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Ben McAdoo is an aspirational, try-hard football guy rather than a real one

I still continue to say [Ben McAdoo] is not a football guy. He's a football guy in disguise. He's trying to be. He's an aspirational football—he's a try-hard football guy. Football guys don't even know that they're trying to be football guys. He knows.

Opinion Football Medium Subjective

This is a subjective assessment of a coach's personality/archetype.

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Void

Take Slip·Dec 12, 2016

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PFT Commenter

Derek Carr, Russell Wilson, and Dak Prescott are all 'Cali boys' who cannot handle the cold

I'm keeping a list right now of guys that can't handle the cold because we need to update this as we get into the playoffs. [Derek Carr], [Russell Wilson], and now we've got Dak. You know, they're all Cali boys pretty much.

Opinion Football Medium Subjective

While all three had bad games in the cold that week, the 'can't handle cold' label didn't necessarily stick as a career-defining trait for all of them (Wilson won a Super Bowl in NY cold), making this a typical PMT narrative take.

Void

Take Slip·Dec 12, 2016

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PFT Commenter

The punter 'hype bubble' will crash within two weeks

I feel like with those three guys [Hecker, McAfee, King], we're entering a punt bubble. It's unsustainable. Punters can't continue to be cool for the next three weeks. There's got to be a crash in there somewhere. So I'm predicting a punter's going to look really uncool... I'm going to go way out on a limb and say that a punter's going to do something dorky in the next couple weeks.

Prediction Football Mild SubjectiveSarcastic

This is a comedic/satirical prediction that can't be strictly verified, though punters did return to their usual low-profile status.

Win

Take Slip·Dec 12, 2016·Who's Back

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Big Cat

Aaron Rodgers is officially back and the Packers are the team nobody wants to play in January

Aaron Rodgers is officially back. He did his whole thing where everyone talked about how [he] was awful, and then he's rattled off three games that have been great, and the Packers are right back in the thick of things, and they are officially the don't-want-to-play-these-guys-in-January team.