PMTPMT DB

Takes

Loss
#PMT-2017-1113-2231
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Coleslaw is both a salad and a liquid that keeps you hydrated

Coleslaw is the rare food that is both a salad and a liquid at the same time. So if you eat enough coleslaw, you stay hydrated.

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While coleslaw contains water from the cabbage and dressing, it is not considered a hydration source by any nutritional standard.
Push
#PMT-2017-1016-14638
Big CatBig Cat

Players are statistically less likely to get a concussion without a helmet

I think you're actually statistically less likely to get a concussion when you're not wearing a helmet. Agree, because you protect your head more. That's basically that's a basic fact of human reaction to things.

There is some scientific debate about whether removing helmets leads to safer tackling techniques, but claiming it as a 'basic fact' for all situations is inaccurate.
Void
#PMT-2017-0607-9243
Big CatBig Cat

College baseball coaches and football strength coaches are the same species of person

College baseball coaches and high school baseball coaches are under the same phylum as football strength coaches. They're very similar. They're very similar species... College baseball coaches definitely still spit dip in their players' faces and have weird sayings and call them all pussies.

This is a sociological observation about coaching archetypes.
Win
#PMT-2017-0421-19202
Big CatBig Cat

Mike Gundy has decided to be a crazy person for the rest of his career as a branding move

I think what happened was he went out and he saw how good it felt to say something crazy and be perceived as like a crazy dangerous person in public that he's like you know what I'm just going to be fucking nuts for the rest of my career that's my brand that's what I'm going with I'm going to out crazy Mike Leach.

Gundy has continued to lean into his unique persona, including the mullet and various rants, supporting this theory.
Void
#PMT-2017-0130-1685
Big CatBig Cat

Shaka Smart having an assistant hold a paint can to remind players to stay in the paint is a good move

You know, we make fun of a lot of things and we kind of have a good time on this podcast, but I actually buy this move. Full on. That is like a literal, you know, get into the paint while a guy's flashing a can of paint in your face. You remember to get in the paint.

The effectiveness of the paint can prop is subjective to the Texas team's performance, but it is a real coaching tactic he is endorsing.
Loss
#PMT-2016-1219-16945
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Jeff Fisher will become a VP of Football Operations for a moving team

I think we called it he's going to be vice president of football operations somewhere. ... For maybe when the Chargers move. ... The Chargers fire McCoy. They hire Fisher to handle the logistics and the move.

Jeff Fisher did not become the VP of Football Ops for the Chargers or any other moving team; he briefly coached in the USFL/USFL later.
Void
#PMT-2016-1212-2656
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Ben McAdoo is an aspirational, try-hard football guy rather than a real one

I still continue to say [Ben McAdoo] is not a football guy. He's a football guy in disguise. He's trying to be. He's an aspirational football—he's a try-hard football guy. Football guys don't even know that they're trying to be football guys. He knows.

This is a subjective assessment of a coach's personality/archetype.
Win
#PMT-2016-1128-8214
Big CatBig Cat

Ed Orgeron is officially the greatest interim coach of all time

Is he officially the greatest interim coach of all time? His last head coaching stint at Ole Miss, where he went 10-25... he's won more games as an interim coach than a head coach.

At the time of the take, Orgeron was 6-2 at USC and 5-2 at LSU as an interim, totaling 11 wins, which was more than his 10 wins at Ole Miss.
Void
#PMT-2016-1120-1490
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Ben McAdoo is a watered-down fraud of a football guy

Ben McAdoo seems like he's trying real hard as a first-year head coach to be a football guy. I think he's overextending himself a little bit. He sounds like a fraud. He's like a watered-down football guy.

Subjective opinion on coaching persona.
Void
#PMT-2016-1120-1491
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Bill Belichick 100% pays attention to metrics but acts like he doesn't for his brand

He absolutely pays attention to metrics. 100% he does, but he acts like he doesn't. So he's playing a double mind game... he's like I'm going to make them think that I'm even more of a football guy than I really am when behind the scenes I've got my spreadsheets set out.

While Belichick is known for using every advantage possible (including data), his true thoughts on 'metrics' are subjective.
Win
#PMT-2016-0926-12195
Big CatBig Cat

LSU will win their first game under Ed Orgeron because of the 'interim coach boost'

There's no chance that LSU doesn't win their next game. Coach O, he's the fiery guy.

LSU beat Missouri 42-7 in Coach O's first game as interim head coach.