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#PMT-2022-0906-7840
Big CatBig Cat

Cade Klubnik is a future Hall of Famer

This kid for Clemson is a future Hall of Famer... I've seen five passes from him. Hall of Famer, talking gold jacket folks. Where were you when we said this? [Cade] Klubnik. He's legit.

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Klubnik has struggled with consistency as the starter at Clemson and is currently not on a Hall of Fame trajectory.
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#PMT-2021-1108-5097
HankHank

San Diego State punter Matt Araiza should be a first-round pick

Someone should draft [Matt Araiza] in the first round. ... If he can punt like this all the time, it actually is an incredible game changer. ... You think that if the Patriots took him... I think they should take him. That's the perfect end of first round draft pick.

Matt Araiza was drafted in the 6th round (180th overall) by the Buffalo Bills in 2022.
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#PMT-2021-0201-4050
Billy FootballBilly Football

I am an absolute weapon and I'm going to give 180 seconds of hell to Jose Canseco

I'm fucking gonna go balls to the wall... I'm an absolute weapon... I can get hit. I can look like I'm about to die when I'm a zombie. Keep coming.

Billy went on to beat Jose Canseco by TKO in the first round after Jose went down quickly, validating Billy's claim of being too much for him.
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#PMT-2020-0717-4321
Big CatBig Cat

The NFL will play its 2020 season, but college football is in a very precarious situation

College football is in more of a precarious situation to actually go off on time. If I had to bet right now, I actually don't know... I still think NFL is going to happen. I don't know if college football is going to happen.

Both seasons eventually happened, but college football was extremely disjointed with many conferences (Big Ten, Pac-12) initially cancelling before reversing, fitting the 'precarious' description.
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#PMT-2018-1029-12737
Big CatBig Cat

Winning big college football games requires changing up jerseys to get everyone excited

That's how you win football games. That's how you win big football games. You change up the jerseys, get everyone excited, don't pay the players, put all that money into doing different jerseys every week. New helmets.

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This is a satirical take on momentum and superstition.
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#PMT-2017-1113-2231
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

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.
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#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.
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#PMT-2017-0918-18064
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Kyle Shanahan is the most likely coach to be the first one ejected under new NFL rules

I think a sneaky one is Kyle Shanahan because, one, he's a dick. Number two, he's got that entitlement thing, or at least the refs will think he's got that entitlement thing. So if he says one thing that crosses the line, they'll be like, I'm going to teach you a lesson.

Kyle Shanahan has not been notably ejected from games, and ejections for head coaches remain extremely rare in the NFL.
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#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.
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#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.
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#PMT-2017-0414-15189
Big CatBig Cat

John Madden is actually dead and the NFL uses fake quotes for PR

The theory of this show is that John Madden has been dead for years and that the NFL just uses fake John Madden quotes for PR. Anytime you want to get real football fans behind you, just tell them that John Madden says it's like this.

John Madden was alive until December 2021.
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#PMT-2017-0414-15191
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

The Falcons technically won the Super Bowl according to Bill Belichick's math

[Belichick's] exact quote was really at halftime the game is two thirds over because the fourth quarter is just situational football. So spin zone, the Falcons technically won the Super Bowl.

Hot TakeFootballHotSarcastic
The Patriots won the game officially; PFT is making a joke based on Belichick's coaching philosophy.
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#PMT-2017-0414-15193
Big CatBig Cat

Eli Manning definitely committed fraud with the game-worn gear scandal

He did commit fraud. That's okay. What he should do is just come out and be like, hey, guys, I committed fraud. That's on me.

A lawsuit alleged Manning sent emails asking for 'helmets that can pass as game used.' The case was settled out of court in 2018 with no admission of fraud.
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#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.
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#PMT-2017-0103-7503
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Nick Saban is using Hitler-style propaganda to motivate Alabama

This is actually a real technique that Hitler used. To just make up fake news and pretend that you're oppressed. It's called propaganda. Saban's Goebbels. So you're in charge of thinking of all these bad things to say about Alabama.

Satirical comparison that cannot be factually verified as a coaching strategy equivalent to geopolitical propaganda.
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#PMT-2017-0103-7504
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Chip Kelly will be the offensive coordinator for LSU

I'm just going to put this out here. Chip Kelly to LSU. Offense coordinator? I'm just saying, Chip Kelly to LSU, even though him and Coach O, they don't speak the same language.

Chip Kelly did not go to LSU; Matt Canada was hired as OC, and Kelly later became the UCLA head coach.
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#PMT-2016-1219-16945
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

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.
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#PMT-2016-1212-2656
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

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.
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#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.
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#PMT-2016-1120-1489
Big CatBig Cat

Nick Saban would actually kill a reporter on camera if it didn't stop him from coaching the next week

Nick Saban actually would kill a reporter, I think, on camera. If he could still coach next week, if he could coach in the Iron Bowl, even though he killed a reporter at halftime, he would do it.

Hyperbolic statement about personality, not a literal prediction.
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#PMT-2016-1120-1490
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

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.
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#PMT-2016-1120-1491
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

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.
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#PMT-2016-1024-14142
Big CatBig Cat

NFL coaches only work out to prevent stress-induced heart attacks, not to get in shape

A very football guy move, they're not working out to get in shape. They're just working out so they don't have a heart attack. It's purely to stop the heart attack. Get through the day. Yes. Stress heart attack. Everyone knows you cure a stress heart attack by going on the elliptical for 45 minutes.

This is a humorous generalization about coach lifestyles and cannot be factually proven.
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#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.
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#PMT-2016-0905-17857
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Nick Saban doesn't have sex, he just 'soaks' and watches film

I don't think that Saban has sex. I think that Saban just soaks. You know what soaking is? Yeah, it's the Mormon thing. He just soaks it for a while. And then he's watching film, grading players at the same time.

Highly unlikely to be true, and impossible to verify, but fits the 'football guy' persona they've built for Saban.
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#PMT-2016-0413-12462
Big CatBig Cat

John Madden has been dead for years and the NFL uses fake quotes for PR

The theory of this show is that John Madden has been dead for years and that the NFL just uses fake John Madden quotes for PR.

John Madden was alive until December 2021.
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#PMT-2016-0413-12463
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Pissing rhabdo-colored urine makes you the best possible teammate

That dark shade of brown that's above clear piss. That's if you have rhabdo. That's when you're actually the best teammate. Sacrificing yourself. When your body is deteriorating, your muscle is deteriorating and you're pissing it out.

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Medically, rhabdomyolysis is a life-threatening condition, not a sign of being a good teammate.