Skip to content
PMTPMT DB

Takes

Loss
L. Ron MexicoL. Ron Mexico

Danny Woodhead Would Play The Game For Free

He's Woodhead, say his name with me. He's Woodhead, he'd play the game for free.

Woodhead earned approximately $11M over his NFL career. He did not play for free.
Loss
L. Ron MexicoL. Ron Mexico

Danny Woodhead Never Gets Hurt And Never Fumbles

Not afraid of dirt, and always keeps it humble. Never gets hurt, and never even fumbles.

Woodhead fumbled 8 times in his NFL career and suffered a season-ending ACL and MCL tear in 2016.
Loss
L. Ron MexicoL. Ron Mexico

The Only Flag Woodhead Has Ever Drawn Is Of The U.S.A.

Only flag he ever draws is of the U.S.A. If you a mouthy linebacker, then you must pay.

Woodhead committed 3 penalties in his NFL career. But the patriotism angle is a nice touch.
Loss
L. Ron MexicoL. Ron Mexico

Danny Woodhead Watches Film All Day And Sleeps In His Car

Never goes home 'cause he always goes hard. Watches film all day, and he sleeps in his car.

No evidence Woodhead ever slept in his car. He did reportedly drive a used Buick LeSabre as a rookie, which at least has the grit aesthetic.
Loss
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Water makes you weak — real football players do swish and spit

When I was a high school football player, I used to always tell the underclassmen that water makes you weak. So we do like swish and spit.

Hot TakeFootballHotSarcastic
Deliberately wrong and dangerous old-school football advice played for comedy during the Waterboys charity segment with Chris Long.
Loss
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Defensive ends should jimmy tap quarterbacks to get sacks

If you're coming off the edge, a lot of times you take an angle directly at the quarterback, and that's exactly what the offensive tackle is expecting you to do. So what you could do maybe instead is take an angle just a little bit inside of the quarterback, and while you're running past him, just hit him real quick with a jimmy tap right between the legs. Right in the dick. I don't feel like that technique is emphasized enough in today's coaching environment. It's almost a technique that you have to imagine Belichick is emphasizing right now before they change the rules, before it gets exploited.

Striking a player in the groin is unnecessary roughness. PFT's claim that it's a legal target zone and that Belichick is probably already exploiting it is peak satirical coaching analysis.
Loss
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

The Jeff Fisher 'bend but don't break' defense actually refers to players hyperextending their knees

And you worked so hard that you hyperextended your knee, right? See, that's the Jeff Fisher defense. It's bend but don't break.

The 'bend but don't break' philosophy refers to a defense that allows yards but prevents touchdowns; it is not a literal description of orthopedic injury.
Loss
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Flacco disappeared for 15 minutes during the Super Bowl blackout and no one can account for his whereabouts

When asked what he was doing during the half-hour break, Flacco says he doesn't recall, and that he was probably just hanging out with friends and stuff. But that doesn't really check out when you dig into it, especially when you consider that there was about 15 minutes of game time where Flacco disappeared, no stats at all, and no one can account for his whereabouts.

Satirical conspiracy theory treating the Super Bowl XLVII blackout as a mystery and Flacco's poor second half as evidence of suspicious activity. Presented in the style of the Serial podcast.
Loss
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Cam Newton hasn't earned the right to get calls from refs

Last weekend he was complaining to the ref, he was whining about beating the New Orleans Saints because Ed Hochuli didn't give him a call. And Ed Hochuli told them, you haven't earned the right to get that call yet. You haven't been in the league long enough to get that call. It's more entitlement.

OpinionFootballHotSarcastic
Newton won the 2015 NFL MVP that same season, going 15-1 and leading the Panthers to the Super Bowl. He very much earned those calls.
Loss
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Two sprained ankles is better than one because at least you're symmetrical

We got Jason Witten. Two sprained ankles. You know the old saying in the NFL, if you've got two sprained ankles, you don't have one. And I'd rather have both my feet hurt than just one because now at least you're symmetrical. Jason Witten, he's hurt, not injured.

OpinionFootballHotSarcastic
Two sprained ankles is not better than one. Symmetry does not mitigate the severity of two injuries.
Loss
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Aaron Rodgers has about 40 wins left in his body before he starts to suck

Quarterback wins are kind of like a woman's eggs. Because most people don't realize it but a woman, she's only born with a finite number of eggs. So with quarterbacks, it's the exact same thing because they've only got a certain amount of wins that are in their system. If they don't space them out, then they start to regress early. I think he's got about 40 wins left in his body before he starts to suck.

Rodgers won well over 50 more regular season games after this, including back-to-back MVPs in 2020 and 2021, before declining with the Jets in 2023-2024.
Loss
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Playing on more dangerous surfaces makes football safer

We're making the game less safe by no longer playing it on concrete. And now we're adding like a new bar to the face mask every week. And it's counterintuitive, but if you look at it from a macro point of view, which I am, if you want players to care about their safety a little bit more, then you need to force them to play on more dangerous surfaces.

Harder playing surfaces lead to more severe injuries, not fewer, regardless of player caution.
Loss
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Joe Flacco is so elite that his lightning-fast offense literally blew out the Superdome scoreboard in Super Bowl XLVII

My subsequent investigation determined that the 21-point first-half beatdown that Baltimore hung all over the 49ers was the highest first-half point total in the Dome that year... The scoreboard simply couldn't handle all the electricity needed to keep up with Flacco's lightning, quick-release and high-voltage offense. Quite simply, he blew the scoreboard out. That sounds pretty damn elite to me.

Fact ClaimFootballHotSarcastic
The power outage in Super Bowl XLVII was caused by a faulty relay in the Superdome's power supply, not Joe Flacco's performance.
Loss
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Nick Saban was right to pass on Drew Brees so the Dolphins could afford 'impact players' like Mike Wallace and Ndamukong Suh

Nick Saban gets a bum rap for bailing out on the Dolphins... but in reality, Drew Brees' shoulder... it was the sword of Damocles, and it was hanging by a labrum. And now, oh, now he's looking like a big hero because he didn't sign him... if Saban had brought Brees to Miami, then the entire franchise would be hamstrung by that big contract, and they wouldn't be able to go out and afford impact players like you've got your Mike Wallaces and you've got your Ndamukong Suhs that they're bringing to town.

Hot TakeFootballFireSarcastic
Passing on Drew Brees is widely considered the biggest mistake in Dolphins history, as Brees became an All-Pro and Super Bowl champion while Wallace and Suh were overpaid disappointments for Miami.
Loss
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Hitler canceling football seasons is an underrated bad thing he did

If you really like football, he probably wouldn't have started World War II, which de facto canceled the 1942 through 1944 NFL seasons. It wasn't called the NFL, but he canceled football. So in the first place, that's kind of fucked up. And nobody really talks about that when they're talking about all the bad stuff Hitler did. So I'd like to kind of raise a little bit of awareness there.

The NFL did not cancel seasons during WWII. It continued play from 1942-1945, though many players served in the military.
Loss
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Concussions aren't real

Concussions aren't real. Well, I probably had my brain nicked up a couple times, but if you can pee straighter than you can see after having sex, then that just means you're doing it wrong.

Concussions are well-documented medical conditions. Satirizing the old-school football mentality of denying brain injuries.
Loss
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Terry Bradshaw was the first NFL player to thank God, making all pre-1972 players blasphemers

My understanding is that the honor belongs to Terry Bradshaw. It was after the Immaculate Reception. And if you look at it from the other way, you can honestly say that every player that played in the NFL before 1972 is probably burning in hell for blasphemy.

Fact ClaimFootballHotSarcastic
There is no evidence Bradshaw was the first player to thank God. The logical leap that all pre-1972 players are in hell for blasphemy is absurdist comedy.

Search

Search takes, episodes, and speakers