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If Titanic 2 sinks, it would be the greatest moment ever

If the Titanic 2 could somehow sink, it would be the greatest moment ever... because you're an asshole for riding on the Titanic 2.

The Titanic II project has been perpetually delayed and has not yet sailed or sunk.
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Patrick Mahomes throwing left-footed is better than Cody Kessler

Pat Mahomes throwing with his left foot is better than Cody Kessler.

Mahomes is a generational talent; Kessler was a backup-tier player. The literal claim is likely true given Mahomes' arm talent.
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Big CatBig Cat

Hue Jackson is objectively a very bad football coach

From where I'm sitting, [Hue Jackson] is objectively a very bad football coach. Okay? And on top of that... He just blames everyone else when shit goes wrong.

Hue Jackson's winning percentage at the time was one of the worst in NFL history for a coach with his longevity.
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Bob Wiley should be the Browns head coach because you can trust his gut

There is a dark horse candidate that I think America can all get behind, and that is Bob Wiley. If there's ever a coach that can go with his gut, that you should trust his gut, it's Bob Wiley.

Bob Wiley never became a head coach, and Freddie Kitchens was hired instead.
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The Patriots are very beatable without Rob Gronkowski

I thought that I think [the Patriots] are very beatable, though, without Gronk.

The Patriots won the Super Bowl this season (Super Bowl LIII) despite Gronk being physically limited.
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Big CatBig Cat

The Eagles are suffering a quintessential Super Bowl hangover

No, they are a quintessential Super Bowl hangover. Because every game, they're up 17-0. They're like, oh, we got this... but it's these games that they think they've won and they just lose them.

The Eagles finished 9-7 and barely made the playoffs, a significant drop from their 13-3 championship season.
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Big CatBig Cat

Todd Gurley is outscoring the entire Buffalo Bills team

Todd Gurley has seven more points than the entire Buffalo Bills team.

At this point in the season (Week 7), Gurley had scored 90 points (15 TDs) while the Bills as a team had scored 81 points.
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Justin Tucker is worth a second-round pick

Justin Tucker is the one kicker that I think would actually probably be worth a first-round pick... I'll give you a second.

Subjective value, but Tucker is the most accurate kicker in history, making his value exceptionally high.
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Taysom Hill is better at everything Tim Tebow does

[Sean Payton] puts Taysom Hill out there, and Taysom Hill is like Tim Tebow – except he's better at everything Tim Tebow does. He's a better pump protector. He's a better passer. He's a better runner.

Hill has had much more longevity and versatile success in the NFL than Tebow as a non-traditional weapon.
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Big CatBig Cat

The Saints are the second best team in the NFC

[The Saints] are just five and one now and look like the second best team in the NFC behind the Rams.

The Saints finished as the #1 seed (13-3) in the NFC, actually ahead of the Rams (though the Rams beat them in the NFCCG).
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Mike Vrabel hates ties more than he hates losses

Mike Vrabel, I figured him out. He just hates ties. He thinks ties are worse than losses... and the Titans lost at the goal line going for two.

Vrabel consistently played aggressively for wins throughout his career, famously avoiding ties when possible.
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Big CatBig Cat

Urban Meyer can't get his team ready for inferior opponents

Urban Meyer's sad faces on the sideline because Ohio State lost a game that they should have won... people are saying, not me, people are saying, Urban Meyer, can he get his team ready for the inferior opponents? I don't know... but this is now becoming a trend for Urban Meyer.

Meyer finished 2018 with another Big Ten title but the loss to Purdue kept them out of the playoff, supporting the idea that one slip-up to a 'lesser' team was a pattern.
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HankHank

Boban Marjanovic is not of this world

My who's back is Boban... His clips of him playing are, I mean, I remember people talking about him last year, but this year it's like surreal. He's not of this world. It's like he's playing on a seven-foot hoop.

Hyperbolic but reflects Boban's historically high PER and physical uniqueness.
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Dave DameshekDave Dameshek

Antonio Brown is the best wide receiver since Randy Moss

Antonio Brown's the best receiver since Randy Moss. And Le'Veon Bell's the best running back in the game. And are they really never even going to get to a Super Bowl together?

Brown had a legendary run in Pittsburgh, though many would argue for Megatron or others. Brown never won a Super Bowl with the Steelers.
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Dave DameshekDave Dameshek

The Eagles lack a grinder running back to finish games

It's clear in the fourth quarter that's what [the Eagles] miss with not having Jay Ajayi or LeGarrette Blount. That's going to be a bad thing, and I don't know what the fix is out there on the open market for them to get that guy who can just grind the defense when you need him to.

The Eagles struggled to run consistently in 2018, finishing 28th in rushing yards per attempt.
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Dave DameshekDave Dameshek

The Packers will be the second best team in the NFC by the end of the season

I'll say it's going to be the Packers by the time it turns out [the second best team in the NFC].

The Packers finished 6-9-1 and missed the playoffs entirely; Mike McCarthy was fired mid-season.
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Dave DameshekDave Dameshek

The Detroit Lions are a sleeper team for a Wild Card spot

The sleeper team that I was talking about, pointing to for everybody in August, that nobody still is talking about, the Detroit Lions... I wouldn't be surprised if they wind up with a wild card.

The Lions finished 6-10 and last in the NFC North.
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Adam Thielen is the best wide receiver in the NFL right now

Thielen, here's a take. I think Thielen's the best wide receiver in the NFL right now. Boom. I said it.

Thielen was statistically the best for the first half of 2018, but players like Julio Jones and DeAndre Hopkins finished with better overall seasons.
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Kirk Cousins is too big of a nerd to ever win a Super Bowl

I also think that Kirk Cousins is too big of a nerd to ever win a Super Bowl... I don't trust a guy like that... He basically thinks he's living inside of a ted talk right now and his job he like reads too many motivational quotes.

Kirk Cousins has still never won a Super Bowl. The Falcons went 8-9 in 2025 and missed the playoffs.
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Dave DameshekDave Dameshek

The Super Bowl will be the Rams vs. the Chargers

I think, by the way, that that's going to end up being your Super Bowl is the Rams and the Chargers.

The Rams made the Super Bowl, but the Chargers lost in the Divisional Round to the Patriots.
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Big CatBig Cat

Philip Rivers is the most underrated quarterback of our time

Phil Rivers is probably the most underrated quarterback of our time. He's for sure a Hall of Famer.

Rivers finished his career with elite passing numbers, though his Hall of Fame status is still debated by some due to lack of rings.
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Dave DameshekDave Dameshek

Joey Bosa is a better long-term defensive player than TJ Watt

I assume Bosa's going to come back healthy. I would definitely take Bosa [over TJ Watt for the rest of their careers].

While both had great careers, TJ Watt won DPOY and became a perennial leader in sacks, likely surpassing Bosa's career arc.
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Big CatBig Cat

The Bengals/Chiefs over not hitting is a national tragedy

What just happened in that NFL game, not hitting the over, is a national tragedy. It needs to be investigated... It's fucking ridiculous that the Bengals only scored 10 points against the Chiefs defense.

The total was 57.5 and the game ended 45-10 (55 points), so it was indeed a narrow miss.
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HankHank

The Red Sox will win the World Series in five games

Sox in five... I just hope it's six so I can go to game six.

The Red Sox did indeed defeat the Dodgers 4-1 to win the 2018 World Series.
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Big CatBig Cat

The Red Sox will win the World Series in seven games

I'd probably say Red Sox in seven.

The Red Sox won in five games, not seven.
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David Price's postseason demons won't be fully exercised until he wins in the World Series

I'm not ready to declare the demons exercised. The demons are warmed up. They're jazzercising right now. To be fully exercised, it has to be in the World Series.

David Price went on to win Game 2 and Game 5 of the 2018 World Series, earning the series-clinching win and effectively silencing critics.
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The Bryce Harper sweepstakes is over for the Red Sox because of their current outfield chemistry

So can we put the Dunn chain on the Red Sox in terms of being in the Bryce Harper sweepstakes next year? Ooh, you don't want to mess up with that chemistry of a team that went to the World Series.

The Red Sox did not sign Bryce Harper; he signed with the Phillies in early 2019.
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Larry Fitzgerald is holding the Cardinals back and should retire

I think Larry Fitzgerald is holding the Cardinals back by not retiring. He's the captain, and he's taking shine away from his rookie QB... He's doing the saddest retirement tour.

The Cardinals were indeed bad (3-13), but Fitzgerald continued to be a productive veteran for several more years, showing no signs of 'holding back' the franchise through his presence alone.
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Big CatBig Cat

Steve Wilks will be the first NFL coach fired in 2018

I think it is now official that Steve Wilks might be the first coach to be fired... Just fire him and then pretend it never happened. You could easily do it right now. We'll all forget.

Hue Jackson (Browns) was actually the first coach fired in 2018 (Oct 29). Wilks was fired at the end of the season.
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Big CatBig Cat

The Bears are officially good if they can beat the Patriots

If the Bears can beat the Patriots, then they're officially good. It's going to be a big test.

The Bears lost to the Patriots 38-31, but they finished 12-4 and won the division, proving they were indeed 'good' even in a loss.
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The Jets did themselves a favor by missing out on Kirk Cousins

If you know anything about Kirk Cousins, you actually did yourself a favor by not getting him because you'd rather suck out loud than be kind of around average for four years.

Cousins led the Vikings to several winning seasons and a playoff win, while the Jets struggled with Sam Darnold and Zach Wilson for years. Subjectively, the Jets likely would have preferred Cousins' stability.
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HankHank

The Chiefs will have a come-down-to-earth game against the Bengals

I think this is going to be the week where everything comes back down to earth. It's a little bit sloppy. They might lose, but they're probably going to be within the record.

The Chiefs blew out the Bengals 45-10. This was the opposite of a come-down-to-earth game.
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Mark SchlerethMark Schlereth

Only 12 NFL owners actually care about winning championships

I think there are legitimately 12 teams in the National Football League that are legitimately concerned about winning a Super Bowl... I think there are certain owners that are just in there to build equity... and every now and then catch the lightning.

This is an insider's professional opinion on institutional goals, which is inherently subjective but highly respected given his proximity to owners.
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Mark SchlerethMark Schlereth

The Dallas Cowboys will never win a championship until Jerry Jones stops being the General Manager

I've always said they'll never win until [Jerry Jones] is ready to actually relinquish control. I mean, it's one thing to appoint a guy, you know, head coach or whatever. It's an entirely different thing to empower that guy.

The Cowboys have not won a Super Bowl since 1995, and Jerry Jones remains the GM.
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Mark SchlerethMark Schlereth

Aaron Rodgers acts like Compound W by covering up the Packers' warts

When you've got a quarterback like that—I always just say this about Peyton Manning... he's like Compound W, just spreading himself all over warts. The issue you get into is that I think you get this self-confidence that we're pretty good... they think they're a lot better than they really are.

The Packers went 6-9-1 and missed the playoffs in 2018, proving that Rodgers could no longer mask the team's deficiencies entirely that year.
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Mark SchlerethMark Schlereth

The NFL is tailoring the game to fantasy football fans by creating 'Points-a-Palooza'

We've created a generation of people who have watched football based on fantasy football... and the NFL is actually going, okay, you love fantasy football? Here it is. Here's fantasy football for you. People are digging it.

The 2018 season was one of the highest-scoring in NFL history, and rule changes have continued to favor offense and high-scoring games.
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Mark SchlerethMark Schlereth

Case Keenum is missing wide-open targets because of bad footwork

He [Case Keenum] just hasn't been very good. He's missed a bunch of wide-open targets... part of it is your offensive line stinks, and so you speed up your footwork... and the ball just gets out of your hands. The timing of your footwork and the routes don't line up.

Keenum finished 2018 with 18 TDs and 15 INTs and was traded after the season, confirming he was not the long-term solution in Denver.
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Mark SchlerethMark Schlereth

The Kansas City Chiefs are 'September Darlings' who will get pummeled in January

See, the thing about Kansas City for me is I like to refer to them as September's darlings. Yeah, because they're always going to win a bunch of games in September, and January's going to come around, and they're just going to get pummeled.

Incorrect. The 2018 Chiefs went to the AFC Championship and only lost in OT to the Patriots. They won the Super Bowl the following year.
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Mark SchlerethMark Schlereth

Bill Belichick cannot truly understand the pressure of a 3rd and 12 from your own goal line because he never played

Bill Belichick has no idea what – he's the greatest football coach we've ever been around... He has no idea the ass pucker you get third down and 12 from your own six-yard line right in the shadow of your own end zone... I've been there. He can't.

This is a subjective claim about the nature of empathy and experience.
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Mark SchlerethMark Schlereth

You can only play with a back fracture in hockey and football

The only sports that you can play with a small back fracture are hockey and football... Injured is when you have to have surgery that holds you out. You have to play injured [in the NFL]. And more importantly, you have to play well injured.

This is a subjective claim about the threshold of pain and playability in different sports, though medially controversial.
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Big CatBig Cat

Kevin Durant is getting one more ring and then leaving the Golden State Warriors

Kevin Durant, baby back bitch, tweeted... 'one down, 81 more, what a night.' His brother, Tony, Tony Durant, replied... 'fill in the hand up before we get out of here.' Hmm. So it looks like he's going to L.A. So he's getting another ring, and then he's getting the fuck out.

Correct. Durant left the Warriors for the Nets following the 2019 season (though the prediction specifically mentioned LA, the core 'getting out' part was right).
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Big CatBig Cat

The summer of 2019 will be the greatest free agent summer ever because the internet will try to troll Kevin Durant into joining the Knicks

This is going to be the greatest free agent summer of all time, because we basically have Kevin Durant being like, can an entire internet troll him into going to the Knicks just to try to get his, like, this made-up masculinity back that we've decided he doesn't have.

While the free agency summer was indeed massive (Kawhi, PG, KD, Kyrie), Durant chose the Nets over the Knicks.
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Big CatBig Cat

I will stop calling Kevin Durant a 'baby back bitch' if he signs with the New York Knicks

If he goes to the Knicks, I've got his baby back. We will take away the triple B if he goes to the Knicks. So here we go. Kevin Durant, when you put your pros and cons on a sheet this summer, Just put in the pro, pardon my take, will stop calling me a baby back bitch.

Durant did not sign with the Knicks; he signed with the Brooklyn Nets.
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Big CatBig Cat

The G-League's $125k offer is a major threat to the NCAA

The G-League has come out and they have said that they are giving a $125,000 contract to players that could be eligible for the one and done and they want to skip college... This is trouble for the NCAA.

The G-League Ignite and other professional paths (Overtime Elite, NIL) eventually revolutionized college basketball and drastically changed the one-and-done landscape.
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The wind is a continuous circle caused by the Earth turning

Wind... It doesn't [stop], that's because it's a circle. It just goes forever. The earth keeps, well, the wind is caused by the earth turning.

Fact ClaimLifeMildSarcastic
Wind is caused by differences in atmospheric pressure, though the Coriolis effect (from Earth's rotation) does influence its path. It is not literally a single circle of air.
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Deja Vu is just a CD skipping in the Elon Musk computer simulation

Well, it's a glitch in the matrix because right now we're all living in a computer simulation that's being run by Elon Musk. So when you see something for the second time, it is just something that's already happened and it's being replayed by accident. It's like a CD that skips.

While simulation theory is a philosophical concept, defining deja vu as a 'skip' in Elon Musk's program is obviously a comedic claim.
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Big CatBig Cat

America is sick of Aaron Rodgers winning games in predictable, dramatic fashion

He will win a game late, and he will do it in dramatic fashion, and he will drop dimes and all that. I'm sick of it. I think America is sick of it, to be honest, if I'm just going to speak for America here.

This is subjective, but Rodgers' style of late-game heroics continued to be a major NFL storyline for years, though 'America' was likely more entertained than sick of it.
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Big CatBig Cat

Jason Witten was hired by ESPN solely to mend the relationship between the network and NFL owners

Jason Witten is in place to mend the ESPN-NFL relationship, which makes sense... they put him in there, and it doesn't really matter if he's bad for the audience. It just matters that the rest of the owners and Roger Goodell likes him.

While Witten's hire was widely criticized for his lack of experience, the specific 'mending relationships' motive is a matter of corporate strategy that hasn't been officially confirmed but remains a strong industry theory.
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The NFL referees are being bullied by the internet into not calling the game by the rules

The refs are getting bullied by the blogosphere and the twittersphere into not calling the game by the rules. I would have liked to see [Clay Matthews] get penalized for that [hit on C.J. Beathard].

Whether refs are 'bullied' by social media is inherently subjective.
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Big CatBig Cat

The Bucks will win over 48.5 games and win the Central Division

I have the Bucks over 48 and a half. I think the Bucks are going to be very good. I think they'll win the Central. I think Giannis is going to – do you see he shoots threes now?

The Bucks finished the 2018-19 season with 60 wins and won the Central Division.

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