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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

History suggests Joe Judge's 'hard-ass' coaching style might not work for the Giants

Joe judges, he is going full interim head coach right now and I hope it works just because I want to see Joe judge in the league if he's doing hilarious stuff like this from day one. I hope it works out but history tells us it might not.

Joe Judge was fired by the Giants after two losing seasons (6-10 and 4-13).
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Take Slip·Aug 19, 2020
#PMT-2020-0819-18786
Michael StrahanMichael Strahan

The jersey currently up for auction from the Super Bowl is not the real one

That's not the jury that I have hanging down stairs at my gym... I just knew after that game. I was going to keep everything... the jerseys hanging downstairs. And the rest of the day. I have the rest of the Jersey. I have my glove my wrist brace my shoes. I got everything. So when I saw that I was a little surprised to man.

Strahan is the ultimate authority on his own property, and there were no subsequent reports proving him wrong.
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Take Slip·Aug 19, 2020
#PMT-2020-0819-18787
Michael StrahanMichael Strahan

Eli Manning is a surefire Hall of Famer

I think Eli you the Hall of Famer is the first ballot. I don't know but I think in this your Fire Hall of Famer without a doubt, I think just the two Super Bowl wins, and and the Let's play that he had missed a career that he had without missing.

Michael Strahan predicted Eli Manning was a 'surefire Hall of Famer' and possibly first ballot. Manning was a finalist for the 2025 class but did NOT get in on the first ballot. He's a finalist again for 2026. He'll likely get in eventually, but the 'first ballot' part was wrong.
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Take Slip·Aug 19, 2020
#PMT-2020-0819-18788
Michael StrahanMichael Strahan

I broke the single-season sack record and don't care about the Brett Favre 'dive' controversy

22 and a half baby if you don't like it, don't break it... anything records are meant to be broken. The only record I cared about when it came to Saks already had That's LP single-season record with the giant... I broke the number that was there.

Strahan officially held the record of 22.5 until T.J. Watt tied it in 2021.
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Take Slip·Aug 19, 2020
#PMT-2020-0819-18789
Michael StrahanMichael Strahan

Defensive end is the second most important position in football

I think the second highest paid position and football is a defensive end. Yeah behind your back because that's the only guy on the defensive side of the ball who can disrupt the quarterback in so many ways.

Salary data generally supports that edge rushers are among the highest-paid non-QBs in the NFL.
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#PMT-2020-0817-4387
Big CatBig Cat

Alex Smith looks like he still can't play football despite being cleared

He doesn't look like he can play football. His leg. I think I could play football better than he could play football. I don't he couldn't he couldn't avoid the rush of his five-year-old spraying like Dasani on them and then they put out pictures of his leg and it's like to see turbine not well his leg is in basically a Forever cast right now.

Alex Smith not only returned but played in 8 games in 2020, leading Washington to the playoffs and winning NFL Comeback Player of the Year.
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Take Slip·Aug 14, 2020
#PMT-2020-0814-10970
Big CatBig Cat

George Kittle is the best tight end in the NFL

George Kittle... signs a 75 million dollar contract... I'm going to say he's the best tight end in the game. He's the best tied in the game and he has played in the NFL for three years and he has made less than 2 million dollars total.

While subjective, Travis Kelce's statistical dominance over the following years often placed him ahead in consensus rankings, though Kittle remained a top-tier elite player.
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Take Slip·Aug 12, 2020
#PMT-2020-0812-3450
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

The NFL should schedule low over/under games at 11:00 AM to replace Big Ten football

If there's no college football on Saturday... try to replace it... by just scheduling the game that has the lowest point total over under to be the 11 a.m. Game. Have it be like Broncos Redskins 11 am.

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The NFL did not move games to Saturday mornings to accommodate the Big Ten's absence.
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Take Slip·Aug 12, 2020
#PMT-2020-0812-3451
Big CatBig Cat

Sean McVay scripted his shirtless scenes and dog tricks for Hard Knocks

Sean McVay took his shirt off which you know that he's been planning the entire summer... He's like, I'm going to work out this summer. I'm going to teach the dog cool basketball tricks and the pool and the second the cameras get here. Boom.

While McVay admitted the show is a production, there is no proof it was 'scripted' to this degree, though it is a widely held viewer opinion.
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Take Slip·Aug 12, 2020
#PMT-2020-0812-3459
Deion SandersDeion Sanders

NFL players who opt out of the 2020 season risk never playing in the league again

If you opt out, I just really want you to know there's a major possibility in chance that you may never play again... This is a business until business slaps us in the face.

While some stars returned without issue, many fringe players who opted out did struggle to find footing in the league again, as Deion predicted.
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Take Slip·Aug 12, 2020
#PMT-2020-0812-3464
Deion SandersDeion Sanders

The NFL will definitely play its season this year

I really do feel like In the film [NFL] will place [play] this year.

The NFL played all 256 regular-season games and the full postseason on schedule.
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Take Slip·Aug 12, 2020
#PMT-2020-0812-3460
Deion SandersDeion Sanders

The Patriots have a better chance of winning with Cam Newton than they did with Tom Brady

I think they have a better shot with Cam than Tom. Well, that's the thing. Holy shit. You think about that?

The Patriots went 7-9 with Cam Newton and missed the playoffs in 2020, while Tom Brady won the Super Bowl with the Buccaneers. This take was historically wrong.
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Take Slip·Aug 12, 2020
#PMT-2020-0812-3462
Deion SandersDeion Sanders

In my prime, I would have held Michael Thomas to zero catches and zero yards

Why would you even ask me something like that? ... Stat line? ... Zero catches, zero yards. Do you understand how disruptive that is to understand if you curl your route one step too far that you could possibly see me dance with six days into the next game?

This is a cross-era hypothetical that can never be proven.
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Take Slip·Aug 10, 2020
#PMT-2020-0810-4267
Billy FootballBilly Football

One in 50 offensive linemen will die from a heart attack during a game

Billy told us a fact that one in 50 offensive linemen will die from a heart attack during a game which I don't know where he got that fact out of his ass literally just said that before the show.

There is no medical or historical data to support that 2% of all offensive linemen die of heart attacks during games.
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Take Slip·Aug 10, 2020·Wrap Up
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Billy FootballBilly Football

I am going to make a comeback in football

I've actually been having very vivid dreams of playing football lately... I think I'm gonna make a comeback. I'm not sure how that's gonna happen. Anyway, love you guys.

Billy Football did return to the Williams College football team for the 2021 season.
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Take Slip·Aug 7, 2020
#PMT-2020-0807-17882
Big CatBig Cat

Jon Gruden faking a coronavirus diagnosis to teach his team a lesson is an all-time football guy move

Jon Gruden expect the unexpected guys, and he holds a zoom meeting and he has I think it was a special teams coach announces that the start coach Gruden is in the hospital. He's dealing with coronavirus and all his players like oh my god... and they're like ha just kidding gotcha not but take this seriously. Yeah, let's all learn a lesson from this... it was an all-time football guy move for him to be like, let's learn a lesson from me pretending that I'm [sick].

Jon Gruden did indeed fake a COVID-19 diagnosis to test his team's readiness and response in August 2020.
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Take Slip·Aug 7, 2020
#PMT-2020-0807-17884
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Bill Belichick might opt out of the 2020 season to sabotage Josh McDaniels and tank for Trevor Lawrence

My big-time stay woke on this is that Bill Belichick, he might opt out if coaches can opt out... he's got so many players on defense that are out, right? If Bill Belichick opts out McDaniels probably takes over, right? They go 4-12. All of a sudden no one wants to sign Josh McDaniels to a head coaching contract next year. He keeps the team together maybe gets Trevor Lawrence.

Belichick did not opt out of the 2020 season, and the Patriots finished 7-9, missing out on Trevor Lawrence.
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Take Slip·Aug 7, 2020
#PMT-2020-0807-17888
Hunter HenryHunter Henry

Philip Rivers is definitely a Hall of Fame player

I miss tilt on man. He's he's a stud and I mean he was just very underrated to me. I mean he is just I think he's all the same player and you know, everybody wants to debate that but I think he is I mean, he's a stud and just the things that he does in the background that I got to see just firsthand.

Philip Rivers was not in the 2026 HOF class. His case remains unresolved.
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Take Slip·Aug 7, 2020
#PMT-2020-0807-17889
Hunter HenryHunter Henry

The Chargers will go 16-0 and win every game this year

What is your record going to be this year? 16 and O's the goal right whenever game but we're gonna take it week by week... [Big Cat: 16-0 is what I heard guarantee] Hey man you gotta go home with confidence. I mean, if you don't go into the game thinking you're going to win, you know, then I think every team goes in thinking they're gonna win.

The 2020 Chargers finished 7-9.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

The Rock buying the XFL is a staged WWE-style feud with Vince McMahon

I think that this is work. I think that I think that this is WWE. A situation where the rock but McMahon's baby from underneath them. And now it's going to be like a WWE style Feud which is what the XFL should be in the first place.

The Rock did buy the league, but it wasn't a scripted WWE feud; it was a standard bankruptcy auction purchase, and the league later merged with the USFL.
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Big CatBig Cat

Big Ben Roethlisberger loves being the most injured person in the world

Big Ben is on my cool Throne because Big Ben no one likes to tell you how injured they are as much as Big Ben... from what I understand not three [ligaments], so he's flexing about who's three torn ligaments in his elbow.

Subjective characterization of Roethlisberger's public persona.
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Take Slip·Aug 3, 2020
#PMT-2020-0803-3004
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

NFL players will lie about having COVID just to keep playing

The one thing that I think the NFL still has going for it is that pretty much every single player is just going to lie when they have coronavirus. I think there will be a whole team that's sick and we just won't know about it.

While it's hard to prove individual lies, there were several instances of NFL teams being fined for protocol violations and hiding contacts.
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#PMT-2020-0803-3017
Big CatBig Cat

Mike Glennon is the perfect quarterback for people to use in Kaepernick comparison tweets

Every year we have to have at least one quarterback that's the perfect person for half of Twitter to quote tweet and be like Colin Kaepernick isn't on an NFL team but this person. Yes, Mike Glennon is like the perfect person to focus our attention on there.

This accurately reflects a recurring trend on sports Twitter whenever Glennon signed a contract.
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#PMT-2020-0803-3022
Big CatBig Cat

Aaron Rodgers will leave the Packers in a few years just like Brett Favre

I think that if he does play this year and he plays well, it's going to be the Brett Favre thing. They're going to give him two more years... And then after a couple seasons, he'll go somewhere else.

Aaron Rodgers stayed for three more seasons (2020-2022) before being traded to the New York Jets, mirroring the Favre timeline almost perfectly.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Aaron Rodgers would rather play for Mike McCarthy in Dallas right now

Aaron Rodgers right now... he would rather I think play for Mike McCarthy right now than Matt LaFleur. Yes who can say what you want about Mike McCarthy, but he never acquired a good quarterback to play behind them... Rodgers always good in Jerry world. So maybe he goes down to Dallas.

Rodgers never played for McCarthy in Dallas; he eventually went to the Jets to play for Robert Saleh and Nathaniel Hackett.
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Take Slip·Jul 31, 2020
#PMT-2020-0731-8107
Big CatBig Cat

Patrick Mahomes should be number one on the NFL Top 100

I like Aaron Donald's the guy that you put ahead of Patrick Mahomes to remind everybody that you watch football. They watch the tapes like well Aaron Donald's really the best player. Yeah, which he's awesome. Don't get me wrong, but I don't And then Russell Wilson also very good player, but come on Patrick Mahomes is coming out. Like what more does a guy need to do? Nothing? He's our number-one.

Mahomes is widely considered the best player in football, and the 2020 ranking was heavily criticized.
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Take Slip·Jul 31, 2020
#PMT-2020-0731-8108
Big CatBig Cat

NFL players get faster after a few years in the league because it becomes their full-time job

I all I said is I would say I said that guy's the NFL run faster couple years in because they know what to do with their body and their it's a job now, so it's not like, you know, you can't go to the gym at certain times or you know, you have classes. It's a full-time job in the offseason. You were paying someone to help train you and all that stuff.

While training improves, biological aging and wear and tear usually slow players down, making this a debatable theory.
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Take Slip·Jul 29, 2020
#PMT-2020-0729-7447
Big CatBig Cat

Bill Belichick is stashing impact players on a shadow team via COVID opt-outs

I think that the patrons might be putting together like a shadow team. Just getting through camp and he's got all these guys that he knows wants to be impact starters. He's like, they're gonna be my shadow team. They're going to stay healthy and then I'm going to bring him in before the season starts.

Hot TakeFootballHotSarcastic
The Patriots had the most opt-outs in the NFL in 2020 (8 players), but there was no evidence of a 'shadow team' strategy; the team finished 7-9.
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#PMT-2020-0729-7450
Big CatBig Cat

Aaron Rodgers used tequila to cope with the Jordan Love draft pick

Aaron Rodgers... he said that when he found out that Jordan love got drafted he used some tequila to cope. So problem drinking. I thought he said that he likes Scotch. Yeah, so he's problem Joe. He's mixing his liquor shop and he was like, I need the hard stuff. I'm going to the tequila.

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Rodgers did admit on a podcast with Kyle Brandt that he poured himself about four fingers of tequila after the Packers drafted Jordan Love.
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Take Slip·Jul 29, 2020
#PMT-2020-0729-7453
JuJu Smith SchusterJuJu Smith Schuster

The Steelers will finish the 2020 season 13-3

I'm going with the Thirteen and three thirteen and three even better.

The Steelers finished 12-4 in 2020, making this remarkably close.
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Take Slip·Jul 29, 2020
#PMT-2020-0729-7455
Will ComptonWill Compton

As an NFL rookie, you should shut the fuck up and lay low

Shut the fuck up and lay low was the first test... No one really knows who the fuck you are... no one likes when rookies come in with some type of running their mouth at all talking too much... don't speak unless spoken to.

This is a subjective philosophy of locker room culture.
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Take Slip·Jul 29, 2020
#PMT-2020-0729-7456
Will ComptonWill Compton

I am officially opting in to play the 2020 NFL season

I am officially opting into the 2020 season. Yes, my doors opened. My phone's open everyone knows where to find a mentor named going in the circuit and we got you.

Will Compton did play in 2020, signing with the Tennessee Titans in August.
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Take Slip·Jul 27, 2020
#PMT-2020-0727-12629
Big CatBig Cat

The Jamal Adams trade is a win-win, but a massive haul for the Jets

I actually love this trade for the Jets... To get up what they end up giving up a first-round and what was it? The final trade haul I believe was like they got Billy's want to put this in there. You got two of the biggest two first round picks a fourth-round pick. That's so much. It's a win-win as far as trades in the NFL go.

The Jets used the picks to eventually draft Garrett Wilson and Alijah Vera-Tucker. Jamal Adams' career in Seattle was marred by injuries and declining play, making it a clear win for the Jets.
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#PMT-2020-0727-12631
Big CatBig Cat

I'm unloading on Mitchell Trubisky whenever the game temperature is exactly 66 degrees

Mr. Trubisky has by far the highest quarterback rating in the NFL when it's exactly 66 degrees... I'm absolutely going to open up my weather app every single Sunday morning. And if it's 66, I'm unloading on Mitchell Trubisky.

Hot TakeFootballHotSarcastic
Trubisky was benched for Nick Foles early in the 2020 season, and 'Mitch Weather' did not save his Bears career.
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Take Slip·Jul 27, 2020
#PMT-2020-0727-12632
Deion SandersDeion Sanders

I could still play a limited role in the NFL or MLB today

I assume that if you put on the pads or grab the bat you could make a NFL or MLB team today. Do you think that that's true or am I maybe exaggerating your skills? [Deion]: That is true, but I would have to play a limited role... I could play nickel at a free safety and football and baseball I could pinch Runner.

Highly unlikely a 52-year-old could compete in the NFL or MLB, regardless of their hall-of-fame pedigree. It remains a hypothetical but is factually incredible.
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Take Slip·Jul 27, 2020
#PMT-2020-0727-12636
Deion SandersDeion Sanders

I will be a college head coach by 2021

moving 2021? I will be where I don't know but I will be [a head coach]... I create a package. I'm not part of one.

Correct. Deion was named the head coach at Jackson State in September 2020 and began coaching in the Spring 2021 season.
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Take Slip·Jul 24, 2020
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Jerry O'ConnellJerry O'Connell

I must have at least three Cleveland Browns players on my fantasy team every season

I only draft Browns players on my team... It's just because last the last time I won fantasy football, I had Braylon Edwards and Derek Anderson as a one-two punch... So now I have to have that a minimum three Browns on my fantasy football team every season and I have not won since that season.

This is Jerry's personal draft rule, which he admits has led to losing seasons.
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Take Slip·Jul 24, 2020
#PMT-2020-0724-8733
Jerry O'ConnellJerry O'Connell

I refuse to draft DeAndre Hopkins because I can't watch Texans games

I have weird teams that I can't watch. I don't know what it is about the Texans that annoy me so I could never draft DeAndre Hopkins, even if I had a top five pick.

Personal preference that dictates his behavior.
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Take Slip·Jul 24, 2020
#PMT-2020-0724-8735
Big CatBig Cat

I actually like the numbers on the helmets for the Washington Football Team

I actually like the helmets. I like numbers on a helmet. People are like, oh man, that's a college thing. Yes, it is. But why not have one team in the NFL have it? Kind of cool.

The uniforms were indeed used during the 2020 and 2021 seasons.
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#PMT-2020-0720-19848
Billy FootballBilly Football

Swag Kelly is the second-fastest quarterback in the NFL

Swag Kelly thinks he's the second fastest quarterback in the NFL, which I agree with... I think he's going to be like a sleeper that's just going to come out of nowhere and get thrown into a game.

Kelly's documented speed and athleticism do not rank him above the likes of Lamar Jackson, Kyler Murray, or other elite dual-threat QBs.
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Take Slip·Jul 20, 2020
#PMT-2020-0720-19849
Cris CollinsworthCris Collinsworth

There is a 90% chance the NFL plays a season this year

The NFL, though, I do think will give it a go. I think they're going to try... I think that somebody will be playing... On a scale of eight to ten [how likely we have football]? Nine.

The NFL did successfully play the 2020 season on schedule, culminating in Super Bowl LV.
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Take Slip·Jul 20, 2020
#PMT-2020-0720-19850
Cris CollinsworthCris Collinsworth

Teams fail in the NFL Draft because they prioritize physical attributes over character and heart

Because it's impossible not to take the pretty girl... when you get a guy who's 6'6" and runs four or five... and they put together a 10 highlight package... and yet that's not what football is. Football is a grind... It takes people who... have that kind of heart that even when they're a mess... they're still going to slam their head into that brick wall.

This is a professional observation and opinion based on years of covering the league and the draft.
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Take Slip·Jul 20, 2020
#PMT-2020-0720-19851
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Elite tight ends like George Kittle and Rob Gronkowski are worth more than elite wide receivers

I think you can make the argument that a great tight end, like a Gronkowski or like Greg Kittle is what we call him, if you're that good at that position, I think you're more... you're worth more to your team than like an elite wide receiver.

This is a classic sports debate topic regarding positional value and team construction.
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Take Slip·Jul 20, 2020
#PMT-2020-0720-19852
Cris CollinsworthCris Collinsworth

George Kittle was the best player in the NFL in 2019

This guy is an SOB blocking now... he and Gronk and a handful of guys are ungodly blockers as they play, and they can do everything the other guys can do as receivers... George Kittle, I think we [PFF] had him as the best player in the NFL last year.

Kittle was indeed the highest-graded PFF player in 2019 with a 95.0 grade.
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Take Slip·Jul 17, 2020
#PMT-2020-0717-4314
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

NFL owners will never force Dan Snyder to sell because they all have similar skeletons in their closets

I think that the other NFL owners, and I think a lot of NFL teams are going to look at this report and be like, well, we can't force [Dan] Snyder to sell because we all have some of the same stuff probably happening under our own roofs.

Snyder was eventually forced out by pressure from other owners and financial issues, but it took three more years (sold in 2023) and multiple investigations.
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Take Slip·Jul 17, 2020
#PMT-2020-0717-4316
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

The best part of being a Redskins fan for the last 23 years was beating a spleenless Chris Simms in the playoffs

The number one best part of the [Dan] Snyder era was we won a playoff game. We beat Chris Simms on the road in a playoff game, and we scored one offensive touchdown... he beat a spleenless quarterback by seven points and scored a touchdown on offense.

While satirical, the Redskins truly had very few highlights under Snyder; this 2005 wild card win was indeed one of only two playoff wins during his entire tenure.
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#PMT-2020-0717-4321
Big CatBig Cat

The NFL will play its 2020 season, but college football is in a very precarious situation

College football is in more of a precarious situation to actually go off on time. If I had to bet right now, I actually don't know... I still think NFL is going to happen. I don't know if college football is going to happen.

Both seasons eventually happened, but college football was extremely disjointed with many conferences (Big Ten, Pac-12) initially cancelling before reversing, fitting the 'precarious' description.
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Take Slip·Jul 15, 2020
#PMT-2020-0715-9900
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

The Washington Redskins should change their name to the Red Wolves

The Redskins are changing their name, hopefully, to the Red Wolves. Dan Snyder, if you're listening, the Red Wolves is the way to go for this.

The team initially became the Washington Football Team and eventually the Washington Commanders. 'Red Wolves' was rejected, reportedly due to trademark issues.
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Take Slip·Jul 15, 2020
#PMT-2020-0715-9901
Big CatBig Cat

Mitch Trubisky's 75 rating in Madden 21 is insane

Mitch Trubisky's a 75 in the new Madden. Insane. He was 79 last year. Goddamn.

Rating a player in a video game is subjective, but given Trubisky's performance in the 2020 season (he was eventually benched for Nick Foles), 75 was arguably generous.
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Billy FootballBilly Football

George Kittle should call himself a quarterback on Twitter to cash in on Mahomes money

George Kittle has said he will go to training camp no matter what... He should just change his position in his Twitter profile... He should just call himself a quarterback. Try to cash in on this Patrick Mahomes money.

Kittle signed a 5-year, $75 million extension in August 2020, making him the highest-paid TE at the time, though still far below QB money.