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#PMT-2015-1022-20217
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Dan Campbell shot his load too fast as interim coach

The problem with a guy like Dan is sometimes you come and you shoot your load too fast. On his first day on the job, he put his team through Oklahoma drills. But on day one, he also did the practice squad player sacrifice. Now, that puts you in a day two dilemma when your team comes in with their hair on fire.

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Campbell did famously do Oklahoma drills and motivational stunts in his first week. The concern about sustainability of that energy had some merit.
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#PMT-2015-1008-20183
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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.

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Rodgers had about 50 more regular season wins after this episode before his play notably declined with the Jets in 2023-2024. The absurd 'finite wins' theory accidentally got close.
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#PMT-2015-1008-20188
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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.

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The NFL actually did NOT cancel seasons during WWII -- it continued play throughout the war (1942-1945), though many players served. The specific claim is wrong but the satirical point about rating Hitler's crimes by football impact is the joke.
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#PMT-2015-1008-20191
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There's no correlation between Obama and the Bears being 0-3

I think if you look at the correlation between the Bears and Obama, it's only a coincidence. I don't think that there's anything dastardly going on. A lot of people forget that Mike Ditka was actually running for Illinois State Senate against Obama back in the late 90s.

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Ditka was indeed considered as a potential Republican Senate candidate against Obama in 2004 (not the late 90s), for the U.S. Senate (not State Senate). The Bears were indeed bad in 2015. The conspiracy framing is satirical.
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#PMT-2015-1008-20196
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John Fox saying you need more than zero points to win is a stats lie

Bears coach John Fox said, 'We need to generate more than zero points to win games.' I fact checked it and went to the archives. Big shout out to the guys at Pro Football Focus. In 1921, the Rochester Jeffersons forfeited to the Washington Senators because the field was unplayable. So Washington literally scored no points and walked away with a huge road win. You've got to be smarter than this if you're a head coach like John Fox.

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The Rochester Jeffersons did exist and there were forfeits in early NFL history, though the specific details are likely embellished. The absurdity of using a 1921 forfeit to disprove a modern coach's common-sense statement is the joke.