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Boobs are officially back in pop culture

I told you Sydney Sweeney has done it. I think boobs are back guys. Yeah. That, that picture all time... Sydney Sweeney has done it.

Mike Vrabel is the #9 Patriot of all time

My player... is Mike Vrabel. Great linebacker for a long time. Great pass catcher, legendary touchdowns. Great dude. He is number nine. Top 10 of all time.

I guarantee the Bucks have a chance to compete for a championship this year

I guarantee a chance to compete for a championship [with the Bucks]. Yes. It's the only answer.

70% of big men in the NBA do not actually love basketball

50% of the NBA are guys that don't love basketball... Let's raise that number to 70 then for the big guys. 70% of the big guys... it's forced upon you because you're seven feet. Something wrong happened in your life [if you didn't play basketball at that height].

The Russell Wilson trade is one of the worst in sports history

Russell Wilson's trade, when looking back on it, the Broncos gave up two first round picks... two second round picks a fifth round pick Drew Lock, Shelby Harris, Noah Fant. And they got back Russell Wilson in a fourth round pick. And then they signed Russell Wilson to a $242 million contract. And he played for the Broncos for two terrible years. And yeah, I think it might be one of the worst trades in sports history.

Russell Wilson will start at least 18 more games in the NFL

I think you asked me at the end of the season, like over under Russ Wilson starts 16 or 17 and a half more games. Yeah. I still take the over on it. I think that there's gonna be a team out there that's gonna sign him to be a starting quarterback next season.

Kirk Cousins is the first major domino of the NFL quarterback carousel

If we're doing dominoes, if we're talking about quarterback dominoes? Yeah. Because there's like three big domino pieces. What is the first domino? Kirk Cousins, who reportedly is thinking about moving to Atlanta.

Jason Kelce's retirement is a major problem for the Eagles' locker room

He was Philadelphia. Like he is the most Philadelphia athlete I think that there's ever been... And I think that like him being gone is a real problem for the locker room. Like he was the leader for so long.

Randy Moss is the 10th best Patriot of all time

Number 10? Randy Moss. Yeah. Only, only player on this list to not win a Super Bowl. But he was, he was that good, that exciting record breaker... When he came to the Patriots, they got him for nothing.

Anthony Edwards missing the tip-off is a sign the Timberwolves aren't ready to win a title

Anthony Edwards lost track of time and he missed the tipoff of the Timberwolves game... This is the kind of thing that you point to when it's like, yeah, the Timberwolves are good, but your star player lost track of time.

The Bears will move on Justin Fields very soon

I think Chicago's gonna get moving on this for sure with Fields. Yeah. I've been stalking their people all week... I'm expecting definitely some action there.

Kirk Cousins to Washington would be a good move for both sides

Kirk Cousins is really the story of all of this right now... Kirk going back to Washington. I mean, that would be, I actually think that would be a really good move. Just based on talking to them this week... You bring in a guy who A, knows the city, but B, understands a winning culture.

The 'Patriot Way' was actually just having Tom Brady

I think they finally realized that the Patriot way is just having Tom Brady on your team... my counterpoint to that would be if the Patriots decided to answer all the questions and be like gregarious with the media, it wouldn't matter. 'Cause they still have Tom Brady.

The Patriots are targeting a quarterback and a top-tier receiver in the draft or free agency

I think the Patriots are obviously exploring the quarterback market, both free agents and draft... they're also in for a stud receiver, I can tell you that. So that could mean through the draft and bring on a veteran.

NFL teams will invest much more in backup quarterbacks this season

I think if there's a, any position that we'll probably see better business would be backup quarterbacks. Especially after last year, we saw so many teams struggle by not investing in it. That was the story of the year. Right? Invest in a backup quarterback.

Winning a Super Bowl with a 'cursed' franchise earns a coach much more longevity than winning with a blue blood

It's also a great lesson that if you can win a Super Bowl with a franchise that everyone assumed was never gonna win a Super Bowl, you do get way more grace than if you win a Super Bowl with, you know, the Cowboys or the Steelers or the Packers.

The Big 10 Women's Basketball tournament will be better than the Men's tournament

The Big 10 tournament for the women's college basketball is gonna be better than the Big 10 men's tournament. I'll just say that right now.

No one will ever hit 40,000 career points in the NBA again

The craziest thing about Lebron 40,000 points is I don't, I don't think anyone's gonna hit it. Like I don't, even though the scoring is crazy in the NBA right now, I was looking at it and Luca has 10,000 points in six years, but to say Luca can play to be 40 years old with his body, no offense to his body would be a jump.

LeBron James is the second-best basketball player of all time

I also feel like we've done at least an okay job respecting the fact that he is an insane, insane basketball talent who is, you know, people will say he is the best of all time. I have him too. Which is, and I think the gap between two and three is huge.

The 2023-2024 Boston Celtics are in a 'Championship or Bust' year

The Celtics have been, they've been to a final, they've been to some conference finals. You have to win it all this year. Yeah. If you don't, it's a failure.

The Denver Nuggets will win the NBA Championship back-to-back

I don't think I can make a future bet on this because the price isn't great, but I just think the nugs are gonna win again. I think it's back to back. Nugs.

Villanova is a great bet at 150-1 to win the NCAA Tournament

I bet on Villanova 150 to one. I looked at the prices, I was like, what's a, what's a way I could win half a million dollars. Oh, Villanova.

An NFL GM should draft Joe Milton #1 overall just for his arm strength

Joe Milton's a franchise quarterback. Yeah. Is that fucking throw is so awesome. I said if I'm a gm I'm drafting this guy One one overall. And that's the thing with Joe Milton is like, you will fall. All you need to know about Joe Milton and the most impressive tape out there besides this one pass that he had today, which was like 75 yards, half a step into it. ... This man can throw fruit farther than anybody else that's ever lived. Give me that guy.

Tyler Owens is pretending to not believe in space to get a free rocket ride from NASA

I actually think it, it's not a bad thing to say that you don't believe in space. You don't believe in, in the round earth theory, if you want to get a free ride on a Rocket ship, because there's always one guy where NASA's like, yeah, fuck you. We'll show you. Yeah. We'll take you up to space and you can get a look at it. Like, yeah, you know what, I, I also believe that space is fake. NASA prove help, help me prove myself wrong.

The Patriots documentary 'The Dynasty' is a hit piece on Bill Belichick designed to help Robert Kraft

This documentary, I think it's having the reverse effect that Robert Kraft thought it was gonna have. ... It's so clearly slanted towards Robert Kraft, but it's so, so slanted towards Robert Kraft that it's completely making me hate Robert Kraft and unnecessarily like they're going over the top to Slan it. They blamed Aaron Hernandez on Bill Belichick. Yeah. And basically made it like Robert Kraft was trying to save him.

Engagement parties for men are 'a joke' and 'bullshit'

Engagement Party's a joke guy for guys. For guys. Yeah. Yeah. That's a fucking joke. Engagement party is the most optional thing in the world. Engagement party is a fucking bullshit thing that no one should even have or be invited to.

AI and Hawkeye technology for NFL first downs will make the sport less fun

I don't like it at all. ... People are always like, oh, we're we're measuring like this billion dollar industry with a chain and sticks held by old retired guys on the sideline. Yeah. That's part of why it rocks. ... If you put AI into sports and you make robot umps and robot referees, you are depriving men of somewhere between 50 and 75% of the conversations they have with each other. ... What the fuck are we gonna talk about?

Sydney Sweeney is bringing back the era of 'tits' over 'asses'

My who's back of the week is Sydney Sweeney. She was on SNL. ... People are saying, is Sidney Sweeney bringing back tits? Well, there's been don don't know. What would you say? A decade run where asses have been number one. ... We might look back in history and be like, when did Tits come back? Sidney Sweeney.

I like Drake Maye more than Caleb Williams because he looks tougher

Drake [Maye] really jumped off the page. ... He just had a little more swag, looked a little tougher. And so like, I've kind of been drawn to more toughness, so I would say.

You don't want your players to like their strength and conditioning coach

I don't think I'd want my players to give my strength and conditioning coach an A because don't you want like that guy to be the hardest person in the world on you? I think like, you kind of want to hate your strength coach a little bit, right? Like maybe you don't want an F but it getting like a C plus or a B, you want that guy to like push you to be super, super uncomfortable all the time.

College football will eventually return to regional divisions after the playoff expansion

I still think it's gonna be no different than cable to streaming back to cable where we're bundling all the streaming. Now they're gonna get to a point where they just start making like regional divisions and it's gonna be like, well, okay, so Oregon, Washington USC and UCLA are in a division. Why don't we just call it the PAC four and then we'll get there and then we'll be happy.

Rob Gronkowski is the second greatest New England Patriot of all time

This player came in, changed everything, just vibes wise. He, he, you know, I think I was 18 or 19 when he, when he signed with the team. So as an 18, 19-year-old, he was everything. Rob Gronkowski, Gronk, spike, freaking nature, the most fun player, you know, non Tom Brady. Greatest tight end of all time. I think he might be the easiest player to root for if you're a fan of that team.

The Cowboys must sign Dak Prescott to an extension this year to manage the salary cap

I think they have to get something done with him. I mean, he's got a 59 and a half million dollars cap number. They want to get a big deal done with CD Lamb. They want to get a big deal done with Micah Parsons. They want to upgrade their roster. Jerry Jones himself has said they're all in. Well, how can you be all in if your quarterback is taking up that much of the cap? Right. And by the way, if you don't get it done with him, then after the season, you can't tag him. Right. So he could just leave.

The presence of Bill Belichick and Mike Vrabel on the market will speed up coach firings next season

I think the fact that [Vrabel's] out there, the fact that Bill [Belichick] is out there, I think it speeds up the coaching firing cycle next season when teams are ordinarily making moves. We get to Thanksgiving. Usually. Sometimes there's a move that is made early in the year. One stray firing, oh, Carolina fired Frank Reich. But usually teams wait till after Thanksgiving and then they start trickling in. I, I think it wouldn't shock me if we started getting stuff like if late, late October, early November, because teams want to go talk to Vrabel. They want to go talk to Belichick.

The compensation for a Justin Fields trade will be between a 2nd and a 4th round pick

I think the Justin Fields compensation is somewhere between what Alex Smith got [two 2s] and what Sam Darnold brought. [Sam Darnold] was for a four, a six that year and a four and a two the next year. So three picks. A two, four, and six. And I think that the Justin Fields compensation is somewhere between [those]. So it's like a second and a fourth. A two and a four.

Denver will move on from Russell Wilson

I think they move on from Russ. I mean, Sean Payton, just read between the lines. Right? I don't even have to read between the lines. I think it's just saying it. Sean Payton's lines are like, he holds up three fingers in a straight line and then he takes the first two down. Between those lines, he's gone.

The Texans likely would have drafted Bryce Young if they had the #1 pick in 2023

If the Texans had lost that game and gotten the number one pick in that Draft, if that had happened, I think they might've taken Bryce Young. And I don't know if they would've traded the pick, which means Chicago wouldn't have Caleb Williams, which means they wouldn't be shopping Justin Fields this year.

I am going to pimp out Vanny Woodhead and bring the van back to life in Chicago

We are going to get Vanny to Chicago. We have, we're in a different financial situation than we were six years ago. So I'm gonna probably put some money into this Vanny, pimp it out, figure out how to make it technically exist again. And now we'll have Vanny back in our lives. Like this trip to Indy would've been a perfect, let's just hop in Vanny. Yeah. So we're I Vanny is back.

Technically Vanny Woodhead does not exist and is legally destroyed

Technically it's destroyed. Legally it's chopped up. But I kind of, I couldn't, I didn't have the heart to chop it up, so I just been keeping it. No, one [owns it]. The, it's technically like scrap. It's a ghost car. It just hasn't been scrapped.

Peter King will write Andy Reid's biography in retirement

I don't know how long Peter's gonna be able to hang the pen up for... Peter King might just become the next like biographer of football coaches. He's probably gonna write Andy Reid's biography.

Tedy Bruschi is the #3 all-time Patriot

Number three... Heart and Soul of the defense... Legend. Teddy Bruski.

The 2024 Masters will have an asterisk because Taylor Gooch wasn't invited

Brooks' teammate on Smash Taylor Gooch was interviewed... and he said he's going to be an asterisk. It's just a reality. Taylor Gooch will always remember as the masters that didn't have Taylor Gooch.

Grown men getting ice cream by themselves is actually great

Do you know grown men who go get ice cream by themselves? I don't. It's very strange. [Big Cat responding to Clay Travis quote] Literally all the time I get ice cream. I'm gonna do that as a protest tonight. I'm gonna get ice cream by myself... Ice cream by yourself is actually great.

UMass moving to the MAC is great for 'MACtion' and weeknight football

My cool Throne is Mion, we're getting more Mion because UMass is getting added, which means more games back... more weeknight football eventually.

Patrick Kane is the greatest American-born hockey player ever

Patrick Kane's gonna go down when he Retires as the best American born player of all time. I still think that there's potential room for Matthews to maybe overtake that Throne... but for now, let's give Patrick Kane his flowers.

The Florida Panthers are the favorites to win the Eastern Conference

Florida being the wagon that they are, they're probably the, probably the, the number one favorite in the east.

The Maple Leafs will beat the Bruins in the first round and win the Stanley Cup

I am hoping that they draw Boston as a first round matchup... I feel if the Leafs end up matching up with Boston the first round. I think they beat 'em and then they go on to March to win the Stanley Cup.

Connor McDavid will finish as the second-highest scorer in NHL history

He will probably end up second in all time scoring. So, and, and an absolute phenom who's lived up to every bit of expectation.

Alexander Ovechkin will break Wayne Gretzky's goal record in two years

Next year he'll probably get whatever, 30, 35 goals. And then the following year is when you're really gonna see this, this kind of parade as you're describing start. It's gonna be a stroke off Fest, double wrister, every goddamn game that he's, he's on the broadcast.

Nuance is something Big Cat and PFT can't grasp

And I'm sure you guys are among the masses for which nuances. This this thing you can't grasp.