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Sean Payton will be a decent coach in Denver but won't win a Super Bowl with Russell Wilson

The vibe that I'm getting is that he's gonna come back. He's gonna be a decent head coach... I think he knows how to run a team. So it's gonna be a completely different look for the Broncos... but I don't see him like winning Super Bowls in Denver. At least not with Russell Wilson.

Wilson was released by the Broncos in March 2024 without winning a playoff game under Payton.

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Feb 1, 2023
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Big CatBig Cat

Sean Payton is the perfect coach to fix Russell Wilson

Sean Payton's worth more than the 29th pick when [Russell Wilson] has been so bad and you've invested in Russell Wilson. You gotta figure out a way to fix him. Who better to fix a short quarterback whose arm might be losing a little bit of the steam? He's the perfect guy.

Payton famously failed to fix Wilson, benching him at the end of the 2023 season before the team took a massive dead cap hit to release him.
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Feb 1, 2023
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The Kelce brothers facing off in the Super Bowl is genuinely wild and not overstated

The Kelce Brothers, it's gonna be talked about nonstop... it's actually very crazy. It's really cool that they are the first two brothers to face off in a Super Bowl and they're both really fucking good. I actually think it's wild.

The Kelce brothers did indeed become the first brothers to play against each other in a Super Bowl on Feb 12, 2023.
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Feb 1, 2023
#10931
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Patrick Mahomes will eventually catch Tom Brady in Super Bowl losses

People keep talking about Patrick Mahomes is gonna catch up to Brady. Right? That's the storyline. Well in my eyes he's going—the only thing that he's going to catch up to Brady on is Super Bowl losses. He would lose this one and would still need to lose another one. But if he did, then he would catch up to Tom Brady in losses.

Mahomes won Super Bowl LVII (and Super Bowl LVIII the following year), meaning he did not add to his Super Bowl loss total (still at 1). Tom Brady lost 3 Super Bowls.

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The Ravens' fourth-quarter problems are moving earlier

Historically, the fourth-quarter Ravens have not been a great team. That fourth-quarter Ravens has started to creep its way into the third-quarter Ravens. And I think eventually it's going to keep creeping earlier and earlier in the game. I don't think it's going to get better because the defense does not look good.

This is a season-long assessment that can only be judged against Baltimore's eventual 2026 performance.
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Baker Mayfield has a real revenge game against Cleveland

This is like a big Baker revenge spot too. This is not a made-up Baker—I have a perceived slight against me because some team didn't trade for me when I was on the market. This is Baker Mayfield against Stefanski, and they haven't talked since he left Cleveland.

Whether the personal history materially affects the game is subjective, though the stated public grievance is part of the episode's context.
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The NFL should reduce the season to 16 games

I'm going to say it. I think that 17 games is too much. I like the scarcity. I like if you brought it back to 16, because the NFL's also been playing this game for a long time where they have to find safer-looking ways to do a dangerous activity.

The preferred NFL schedule is a policy judgment, though the player-safety rationale is grounded in the discussion's cited study.