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Something weird will happen with the kickers in the Bears vs. Buccaneers game

Something weird is going to happen tonight. It's gonna be weird kicker night... I'm thinking Cairo Santos might do something good. I'm thinking... suck up [Ryan Succop] is going to do something weird. Whether it's missing three field goals, maybe missing an extra point.

Cairo Santos hit a game-winning 38-yard field goal with 1:13 left. Ryan Succop made all 4 of his field goals, but the prediction of kicker importance was correct.

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Oct 9, 2020
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Big CatBig Cat

I think the Bears will beat the Buccaneers and Nick Foles will look good.

I like Nick Foles in this. There's not a lot to like, it's Tom Brady and Nick Foles. I've seen this movie before... I feel like the Bears are going to have a great effort tonight... maybe not the perfect game but we just went toe-to-toe. We beat the Bucs and Nick Foles looks good.

The Bears defeated the Buccaneers 20-19.
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The Bears offense will look good and put up about 250 yards against the Buccaneers.

I think the Bears offense go look good... I think they're going to have 200 yards... 250, maybe.

The Bears offense finished with 243 total yards, making PFT's 250-yard prediction nearly perfect.
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Oct 9, 2020
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Billy FootballBilly Football

Tom Brady will make a mental blunder that costs the Buccaneers the game.

It's going to come down to whether Brady's been aging, whether we see Brady's age physically and kind of mentally... maybe he gets slower as you age... you know all he's like supposed to be like the smart quarterback, but like, you know, you're not always with it.

In the Bucs' 20-19 loss, Tom Brady notoriously lost track of downs on the final drive, thinking it was 3rd down when it was 4th, which cost them the game.

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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.