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The quarterback position has become interchangeable and devalued just like the running back position

Are you basically saying that the quarterback position is like the running back position and it's almost interchangeable?

Losing three Super Bowls in a row is better than winning one and being irrelevant for 49 years

Losing 15 Super Bowls... this is kind of a mini dynasty you get to go to. Like, just think about how fun Super Bowl week would be. If for the next 50 years I said that your team can win one Super Bowl, but the rest of the 49 years they won't go to the playoffs. Or in the next 50 years, your team can lose 15 Super Bowls. I'd take 15. That means you have 18 months of pure joy in your life.

Nathaniel Hackett's biggest mistake was trying to be Russell Wilson's friend instead of his coach

His biggest crime, Nathaniel Hackett was he walked into a situation where he just wanted to please everyone and he wanted to please Russell Wilson. And he wanted to kind of be his buddy, not his dad. That's where you get first time head coach. Right? You don't come in and you're not gonna lay down the law.

Jake Paul will lose whenever he faces a legitimate professional boxer

I've always stood on the stance that Jake Paul, the minute he fights a real boxer he will get beat. Unfortunately I didn't think Tommy Fury was a real boxer. So I was right about my original take that once Jake Paul fought a real boxer, he would lose. I just didn't think Tommy Fury was a real boxer.

Jake Paul purposely lost to Tommy Fury to make the rematch more profitable

The conspiracy part of Twitter... they were saying that Jake Paul, in order to sell the next fight purposely knew that it would be bad if he won this fight. I think the storyline's better for a second fight... because no one would want to watch another one if he just beat him.

Sam Hurd was released from prison early to serve as viral marketing for the movie Cocaine Bear

Sam Hurd has been released from Federal penitentiary... after serving a 10 year sentence for distributing cocaine. Timing is very suspicious with the release of Cocaine Bear. A lot of people are saying that this judge might have taken some money to do some gorilla marketing for the movie.

Golf is not a team sport and it will never be one

I don't know why they thought like, golf is not a team sport. No. It's never gonna be a team sport. I'm my four-year-old son Chris walked in the other day and he was like, dad, can we watch the ACEs? He's a Big ACEs player. I don't know why they thought like, golf is not a team sport.

I will bet on Will Zalatoris in every golf major until he finally wins one

Will Zalatoris on the leaderboard. I was like, God fucking damnit. This is the year for sure. I will bet him in every major until he wins a major. That is a guarantee.

The East River is full of prehistoric bison bones dumped by a developer

Dirty Water Don... he's found a bone. He found a jawbone of a steppe bison, which is just a prehistoric, gigantic bison. He found the jawbone in the East River. So that means that it is true. There were tons of bones dumped there.

The shift ban will significantly benefit every left-handed hitter in MLB

Any left-handed hitter, it's gonna be good because even if you weren't a guy that was full shift, you're still losing hits because of it. Analytically teams don't care, it's just more so like just don't hit a homer or a double. You'd get blown up and a ball that would stop in the infield grass basically ended up being a hit, and then you lose the one where you hit a line drive to right field and it hits the third baseman right in the chest.

Robot umpires will have unintended consequences like calling strikes on balls in the dirt

I don't want robot umps. No. Because I think there's gonna be a lot of unintended consequences with that. Because if you just have a square that buzzes ball or strike... there are a lot of breaking balls that'll be like in the dirt that'll clip the bottom of the strike zone technically. I don't want robots.

Manager and umpire arguments are good for the entertainment value of baseball

I need to see managers getting right up into an umpire's face. That's so good for the game because people, it's entertaining. At the end of the day it's an entertainment business. So make things that are entertainment. It reaches a large audience.

A combined no-hitter is still a legitimate no-hitter

It is a no-hitter. Cause they got no hits. You're gonna be in history, you're gonna be in the history books as a no-hitter.

Bunting to break up a no-hitter in the World Series is acceptable

If it's like seventh, eighth inning, I don't know... but in like a World Series playoff game... you kind of have to. It's the World Series. Anytime it's the World Series, if it's a one nothing or two nothing game, you kind of have to.

Baseball unwritten rules dictate that if a team hits your best player, you must hit theirs in return

My favorite [unwritten rule] is just if the team drills your best player, you gotta drill the other guys, the other team's best player.

Catchers are the biggest psychos in baseball because they stop projectiles for three hours

I think there's different tiers of it... but catchers, yeah, they're crazy. Who would want to crouch for three hours every day? Just stopping projectiles... getting hit with bats and foul tips... I'm like, you guys are crazy. I wouldn't wanna do that.

Aaron Rodgers will definitely continue playing football

Trying to figure out if he wants to keep playing football. Spoil alert he will. Yep. Wants to continue playing. Probably win an MVP.

Aaron Rodgers will be phenomenal next season and probably win an MVP

I'm fully prepared for him to go back to the Packers and win an MVP. Yeah. Because it feels like this is just the cycle that we're in. And he's probably gonna be phenomenal next year.

The drama surrounding Brandon Miller will actually help his NBA draft stock

My other spin zone is I actually think this helps his draft stock. Think about all the attention he's getting. Everyone knows who he is and then after, you know, all eyes are on him, he drops 40.

Anthony Richardson will not be the #1 overall pick in the NFL Draft

I don't think [Anthony Richardson] is the first overall pick.

I would not touch Anthony Richardson with a 10-foot pole in the draft

I've watched him play... I would not touch him with a 10 foot pole.

I don't believe in Power 5 QBs who were average in college becoming incredible NFL players

Show me a quarterback who played at Power five, who was average, who then ended up having an incredible career. And I'm not saying like, the reason why I say incredible is if you're the number one pick, you should have like, you're projected to have a very good NFL career. And so that's like, if it, if we're talking about the 20th pick, that's different.

The Commanders will get Lamar Jackson

[Big Cat]: You guys are gonna trade up. I'll help you with that. [PFT]: No, we're getting Lamar.

The NBA should award All-Star game winners a year off their contract to hit free agency early

What you should do is you should award the winning team. Every player on the winning team should get one year off their contract to become a free agent. So they hit free agency one year sooner. Yeah. And then that, that would incentivize them.

NBA Finals Prediction: Celtics over Suns

Celtics Suns. [PFT]: I'm gonna say Sons win. [Big Cat]: All right. Celtics sons.

NBA Finals Prediction: Suns over Bucks

I'm gonna go Bucks Suns... I'm switching back. I I'm going suns bucks again. Because that would be funny if like the suns clinched before the Celtics Bucks series ends.

NBA Finals Prediction: Nuggets over Bucks

If it's not the suns, I'm gonna say, I'm gonna stick with my nuggets. My nuggets over Hank's Celtics... Nuggets over the bucks.

It is not a 'sham' if Nikola Jokic wins a 3rd straight MVP without making the Conference Finals

Everyone's getting pre-mad right now about Jokic winning a third straight MVP... they're like, if he wins an MVP and they don't get at least the conference finals, this is a sham. Why? Again, it's a regular season award. Like that's just what it is.

NBA Finals Prediction: Warriors over 76ers

I will go with Warriors over Sixers and the City of Philadelphia completes the superfecta of second place.

The Masters and The Open are the two tournaments I want to win most

The Masters is special... that in the open are my two favorite events... that would be, that would be definitely way up on that list.

Kyrie Irving would not have fixed the Lakers because they aren't just one piece away

Was [Kyrie] gonna fucking fix us? I don't think we're one piece away here. So no it wasn't super devastating.

Charlie Woods will be better than Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus combined

Charlie Woods is gonna be better than Tiger... better than Tiger and Jack combined.

Most humor starts with sadness and comedy is often a mask for athlete struggles

I also think like, you know, like comedians, a lot of 'em say like they're depressed. So I think a lot of funny starts with like a lot of sadness. So most of my tweets started with just like constantly having the weekend off to think and then I would probably mask all the sadness with like, 'Hey, how about that sun being so hot?'

You don't need to be the best at every area of the game to be successful in golf

You absolutely do not need to be the best at every area of the game to be successful. So I'm chasing something that I, I know like that that was unattainable to be that good at, honestly. But besides Tiger Tiger's the only person in history that's been the best at like four to five things in golf.

Learning to 'win ugly' when my game feels terrible is the key to my success

What I've worked on with my sports psychologist... for the last couple months is like we've been talking about winning ugly. Like I'm looking at it as exciting to, for a day where my shit feels terrible and I can still be like, 'All right, I'm still beating your ass.'

If I play my best golf, I can win the Masters

[PFT]: You would say that at your best... you could win at Augusta? [Max Homa]: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hell yeah.

The new PLL Sixes format is the best lacrosse product and will replace regular rules

I think the new, the new PLL championship series six is, is actually I think like the best lacrosse product I've ever seen. Like I think it's gonna replace regular, the regular rules. I think this is how the game is gonna be played in the future. It's the best lacrosse product you can put out.

Anthony Richardson will be the #1 overall pick in the NFL Draft

I'm all the way back in on Anthony Richardson... he also knows I love value... Anthony Richardson +10,000 or whatever, 100 to 1 to go number one... I'm reading all the articles, trying to just will him to somehow become the number one overall pick.

I could definitely hit the waypoints if given the controls of an F-18 fighter jet

I'm deathly terrified of doing this... [but] I do think that if they gave me the controls, I'd be able to at least like hit the waypoints and shit.

Vacations are for suckers and losers

Full stop. Fucking work hard. Hank vacation. Boy, you're soft bitch. All these vacations you're taking. I didn't even like doing it. I wanted to be working with the boys... vacations for suckers and losers.

Eric Bieniemy only joined the Commanders because he was promised they are getting Lamar Jackson

There might be a little deal behind the scenes with Ron Rivera telling Bieniemy 'Lamar gets franchise tag... if it's not exclusive, oh, we're gonna get Lamar now.' Why would he go to Washington, DC... to go to a starting quarterback, Sam Howell, who started precisely one game?

Dan Snyder will sign Lamar Jackson to a fully guaranteed contract just to spite the other NFL owners

Dan Snyder, out of spite just to fuck over the next owner would love nothing more than to give those two first round picks away and on top of that, throwing a shitload of guaranteed money in a contract extension for Lamar Jackson... it would be a fuck you to those [other owners] that don't want these guaranteed contracts.

Lamar Jackson is losing out on major opportunities by not having an agent

It is crazy Lamar Jackson doesn't have an agent. I know like you can, I'm all for player empowerment, but I feel like he is probably losing out on opportunities without an agent. And what team wa—he has no idea what team wants 'em.

UCLA will win the 2023 NCAA Tournament

So I'm going with the UCLA Bruins. Mostly because Tiger Campbell and Jaime Jaquez are still on the teams. There's two guys that I know... And Mick Cronin, friend of the show.

The NBA rigged the 2006 Dunk Contest for Nate Robinson over Andre Iguodala

Nate Robinson was bullshit. He should have lost to Andre Iguodala... well he missed like 32 dunks in a row and then still won. That was the biggest NBA rig thing of all time. Andre Iguodala absolutely dominated that dunk contest.

The Chicago Bulls should tank the rest of the 2023 season

Pat Bev coming home to Chicago. It's gonna be—I don't know what the Bulls are doing. They should tank... they suck. They should tank. But I agree, make the Bulls fun with Pat Bev.

Nate Oats' response to the Brandon Miller situation was 'wild' and inappropriate

Nate Oats his response to that said, 'we knew about that. Can't control everything everybody does outside of practice. Nobody knew that was going to happen. College kids are out. Brandon hasn't been in any type of trouble... Wrong spot at the wrong time.' ...It wasn't a coincidence.

College coaches Micromanage every detail but suddenly 'don't know' when a crime occurs

Whenever there's a bad situation, [college coaches] are so quickly to pretend like they are ignorant to what their players are doing. ...To get to the level of being a division one big conference college coach in football or basketball, you have to be a psycho micromanager. Like down to every detail. And then a murder happens. You're like, 'well, I don't fucking know.'

Kentucky is a dangerous long shot that could get hot in the tournament

I actually like Kentucky as like a long shot... something about Cal's guys. He's gone through it. He's legitimately on the hot seat... they have couple crazy guards that are like, we'll just be reckless. And I like, whenever I'm thinking of a long shot, I'm like, give me a couple guards that will just throw their body at the basket.

Ohio State is so bad they won't even make the NIT this season

I honestly don't think Ohio State's good enough to make the NIT. They're gonna lose the rest of the season. And the way they've lost is just like every which way.