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11:15Big Cat:and they're just having a little sock party on him and just beating the fuck out of him. They put a hit out on him. I feel bad for Jalen Hurts. He doesn't deserve any of this stuff. He's way too good a player. What do you think, Hank?

11:23PFT Commenter:I'm just wondering how this affects A.J. Brown's trade value. I think it actually might hurt it. I think it hurts it because I think it seems like he's gone no matter what. Yeah. So it might help potential team trying to acquire him because the Eagles are pretty much, it seems like they made the decision to move on from A.J. Brown or Jalen Hurts.

11:47Big Cat:But getting rid of A.J.

11:49PFT Commenter:Brown is part of that process. I don't know.

11:50Big Cat:I think that this might make it more likely for them to keep A.J. Brown and move on from Jalen Hurts.

11:55PFT Commenter:That would be crazy because he's a Super Bowl MVP that outplayed Patrick Marlowe's toys.

11:59Big Cat:Why not trade both? There's some propaganda from Hank. Why not trade both?

12:04PFT Commenter:I feel like if I was an Eagles fan, that would drive me insane. To trade both? Yeah. But A.J. Brown's gone in your mind.

12:12Big Cat:That's biased mind, yes. Yeah. And where does he go in your mind? New England. I appreciate you acknowledging bias. Bias, yeah.

12:19PFT Commenter:I wish I hadn't done that. No, I appreciate that. I'm mad, yeah.

12:23Big Cat:Max, do you think it's more... Unbiased, he's still gone. Do you think it's more or less likely now that A.J. Brown gets traded?

12:32I don't know. I've thought A.J. Brown was probably gone for a while now. I think he's just going to get traded after June 1st. That's how he's not going to... Yeah.

12:40PFT Commenter:The one thing I will say that I do love about Philadelphia, and Max, you can back me up. I'm PFT's division rivals with Philadelphia. Hank hates the city of Philadelphia. I think I've always been fair. I like Philadelphia. I think the fans are awesome. I think it's good for the ecosystem. They're going to spend the next week trashing Jeremy Fowler, and then when they do trade Jalen Hurts, they're going to be like, Jeremy Fowler, you were right. I think they're still going to hate him. like there's a chance that everyone a lot of Eagles fans hate Jeremy Fowler and then like come September they're gonna be posting Jeremy Fowler's article being like this is why but what about when Jalen Hurts has an MVP year then they'll be able to trash him still but you see what I'm saying yes I'm aware of that situation are you blocked by Jeremy Fowler I haven't said anything about it actually no I did say one thing tweet him right now just say fuck you buddy just tweet him I don't know I was fired up yesterday.

13:37I quote tweeted some like random Eagles account that was like, why are we running this story today? But and people were like, obviously, it's an Eagles account. They're going to post about it. But I wasn't talking about them. I was talking about Jeremy Fowler. I should have quote tweeted Jeremy Fowler himself.

13:49PFT Commenter:Yeah. Say fuck you, buddy. Do him. Just say it. Just send a shot. Yeah. Send it. They're at a crossroads.

13:56Big Cat:Yeah, they're at a cross. That's what Jeremy Fowler's reporting is. This is a crossroads. It could also be like, oh, you're going.

14:00PFT Commenter:You don't even have to do. You could just do at Jeremy Fowler. So it's not public. Like it's, oh yeah. I'm not even, if you want to go full, full out there.

14:11Big Cat:But yeah, this could just be one season and let's see what happens with Jalen Hurts. Like he has to, something has to change going into this year. And then if nothing changes, then they move on. Or it could just be this, this off season. I don't know.

14:24PFT Commenter:He wrote, he went with get fucked.

14:26Big Cat:Yeah. I love it. That's a memes line. Yeah. I was trying, in my head, I was like, if I were memes, what would I, what would I say here? And I think get fucked. is that a good play a good move right there? Perfect.

14:38PFT Commenter:We'll follow up in 20 minutes see if you got blocked because I think he was blocking some Eagles fans. That is what it is. You gotta shoot the messenger.

14:46Big Cat:Sometimes yeah if you get bad news you gotta shoot the messenger. Especially if it's an article that comes out early April just hey FYI it honestly sounds like a way that me and Big Cat would start an episode a part of my take in a dead week in April just to fuck with Max. Yeah. Like, it came out of nowhere. I have no idea what... It sounds like something that's been planned for a long time.

15:07PFT Commenter:And the fact that it's, you know, happening when the entire league is at the same hotel in Arizona doesn't... It's just the leaks are really what the problem is, Max. Unless, again, the plan is this was all planned out, and then they're going to draft a quarterback or move on from Jalen Hurts.

15:26Big Cat:I don't think it was, like, six or seven guys just, like, independently deciding now is the time to leak. I think there were a couple people that gave the green light and said, yeah, you can talk to Jeremy Fowler now.

15:37PFT Commenter:You're saying someone at the Eagles put a hit out?

15:38Big Cat:I'm saying somebody at the Eagles might need to have a message sent to him. Or maybe Kevin Matulo just has a lot of buddies. Is he still on the staff? I was trying to look into that. I think he is. Okay.

15:54PFT Commenter:I haven't seen anywhere that he's not. Okay. He's not not on the staff. He's not not on the staff Yeah that's fair He's somewhere Oh wait that's a complete lie He's passing game coordinator for the Miami Dolphins He's not on the staff I thought I looked into it Guess I did You look into it now We got the best researchers in the business here He's down in Miami You know what probably happened is I think I googled it To look at this and then I got distracted by something And then didn't follow through You googled Kevin Petulo and saw the first picture of him in the Eagles hat, and you're like, oh, I guess he's still on the team.

16:34And here it still says teams. Yeah, yeah. But then, you know, all you got to do is look over to the overview, and it says Miami Dolphins. And now that we're talking about this, I remember when he got hired by the Dolphins.

16:46PFT Commenter:Yeah. Because I remember thinking, like, wow, what a loser organization, hiring a loser coach. Okay. That's it, Max. That was actually very – that wasn't – I think we all agree. That was good. I'm okay with all of that. I think we all agree because we all kind of had the same takeaways. It's not the Jalen Hurts bashing. It's the leaks. And is this something that they're trying to set up another play from?

17:11Big Cat:If there's a guy that's played at that high of a level and you're not getting it out of him anymore, you have to look at your coaches first. There's something else that might be going wrong. The fact that they all turned on him at one time tells me they're looking to get him out of there.

17:25PFT Commenter:Yeah.

17:25Big Cat:And some team would probably be looking to overpay for him. And Howie, you know Howie sees a situation like that, and he won't be able to help himself if the team's like, Oh, but that's another thing about the leaks. Like, if he was trying to get rid of them, now his stock just went down after this article. True, good point. Like, Howie's very big on, like, trying to get the most out of all of their guys. Right now is not the most after this.

17:50PFT Commenter:Yeah. Yeah. That's actually a fair counterpoint. Kirk Cousins, like we said, Raiders, signed$10 million. He is now made. So he's fully guaranteed for, again, the 11th straight season. Shout out Kirk Cousins. If he plays out this contract, he will make$343 million in his NFL career.

18:15Big Cat:Yeah, absolute legend. Good for him. Played it right. I mean, going back to the first time he got paid, everybody called him weird for, like they said, The situation was messed up going into like back to back to back tag years. And then somehow his agent only picks up the phone for guaranteed money, even going to Atlanta, the guaranteed money that he got there for not really working that hard. Pretty, pretty legendary.

18:38PFT Commenter:Yeah.

18:38Big Cat:And then this contract with Vegas, it sounds like it's a it's really a one year, 20 million dollar contract. And then they can they can go back to it after the fact. I know the Raiders are saying that they they don't want Mendoza to start this year.

18:49PFT Commenter:Yeah. So Kirk might start. And it's also, I can't think of a better pairing than Kirk Cousins and Fernando Mendoza.

18:56Big Cat:Yeah, we were live on Wake Up Barstool when it broke, and Big T goes, they might build a megachurch. Yeah, they're going to be best friend. Yeah, it's going to be great. It's a perfect fit, and Kirk Cousins is going to be pretty much like a coach. He's going to be like a second coach trying to, I think he'll be a good teammate, helping to bring Mendoza along, and probably, they're just like brothers. They're the same guy. Just one's a little bit younger and a little bit bigger, but they're going to get along well, and I feel like this is – it's a very funny thing that they're such a great fit, but it's also in Las Vegas, the city that's like least – it's the least Kirk Cousins city in North America, I think.

19:34Big Cat:It's the least Fernando Mendoza city.

19:36PFT Commenter:They need a wild card third string.

19:38Big Cat:Yeah. Swag Kelly.

19:41PFT Commenter:Swag Kelly would be awesome. Yeah, get Kelly in the mix there. Johnny Manziel.

19:46Big Cat:Yeah.

19:47PFT Commenter:That would be so sick.

19:48Big Cat:they could i think they little heaven and hell yeah they need a little bit of shit in that locker room right well max scrosby's still there that's true yeah he's a dog he is he's an absolute

19:58PFT Commenter:dog yeah christian wilkins back in the mix yeah yeah the uh okay any any other things before we do final four talk the jayden ivy thing has gotten weirder it's very very weird it's also just everyone's picking a side and not i the the story was that he i hope it gets uh akr general manager fired which it should but the story that he he basically said told the trainers that jesus healed his knee and then he got an mri and they're like no i mean i far be it for me to tell him that

20:32Big Cat:he's wrong yeah like try to okay try to play might be and then jesus christ jesus got crossed up too

20:37PFT Commenter:Yeah. And then Tiger, all the videos came out, did not look good.

20:44Big Cat:Yeah. The body cam footage. Why'd they give him a blanket? That's what happens in movies. Like after the good guy, the cop wins at the end, they show up with the ambulance. They're like, here's a blanket to put over you and a little butterfly bandage to stitch up your face.

20:58PFT Commenter:Yeah, they save the kid out of the well. Yeah. They give him a blanket.

21:01Big Cat:I don't know why that Tiger needed a blanket for that. But Tiger taking a knee, that was like, he looked like Drew Brees. It was a solid knee that he was taking. It was a solid knee. For a long time. Yeah, I just hope. Same thing with Tiger and Ivy. I hope that they both are okay. Yeah. Mentally.

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22:42PFT Commenter:Okay, boys. What are we thinking? Or should we preview it and then we'll do our pick? Let's just do it now. Okay. Let's do the pick now. Okay. What do you got? I would like Arizona Moneyline. Okay. Okay. I don't hate that. I don't hate it either. Plus 105 right now. Plus 105. Arizona money. The fact that they're underdogs is crazy to me. Michigan's really, really good. Arizona has looked unstoppable. Arizona's really, really good. They're two of the best teams in a long, long time to be matched up in a final four. PFT, I think you got to go with a total in this game.

23:15Big Cat:So I'm actually going to be not in Illinois this weekend. So does that mean that I could make my leg the Illinois game?

23:24PFT Commenter:Well, I was going to do it because I'm going to be an Indy. Okay. Yeah, if you wanted.

23:27Big Cat:So I'll just.

23:28PFT Commenter:Well, if you have something else, because I have, I was going to take the first half over Illinois in UConn. Okay. 63 and a half, I believe it is. And we'll make sure it's updated. But yeah, that was going to be mine. So you can go off that.

23:41Big Cat:I was going to go with UConn over 68 and a half points. Love that. I don't think that they're going to start off shooting as poorly as they did in the Elite Eight.

23:51PFT Commenter:Yeah. Okay. So there it is. I'm excited for these games. I think it's going to be great, great, great basketball. Very excited. So if we're just going, just quick stats and facts. Everyone knows that they love the Ken Palm stats pre-tournament. So 19 of the last 21 champions have a top 10 Ken Palm offense. If that holds true, UConn's eliminated. It's Illinois 1, Arizona 4, Michigan 5. Those are the three that fit the profile. Now – What was UConn? they're 28th but here's the wrinkle to that stat so like i said 19 of the last 21 champions had a top 10 ken palm offense the two champions that did not have a top 10 ken palm offense any guesses and you guys yeah twice yeah 2011 yukon and 2014 yukon makes sense so it's really the stat is 21 out of the last 21 champions have either had a top 10 offense or been named yukon but but also

24:53Big Cat:So those are the old iteration of UConn. Yeah. Not like the current Danny Hurley iteration. Correct.

24:58PFT Commenter:But yeah, that was a Kevin Olley UConn and that was Jim Calhoun's last championship. But it is funny that the two outliers are UConn who is here.

25:06Big Cat:I think that it's a very important conversation that we should start having just in case UConn does win another national championship. That would make it three for Danny Hurley. I think that would make Danny Hurley the best bald coach in sports history. In sports history. I think it would. I thought about it. The only other option could be Red Arbok. Okay. But he wasn't bald for his entire career. Okay. I think right now he's up there. I think he's already on the Mount Rushmore of bald head coaches. But if he wins a third, that puts you in rarefied air with college basketball.

25:41PFT Commenter:Well, wouldn't you, under that same reasoning, what about Bill Self?

25:46Big Cat:Nope. Nope. Toupee. Danny Hurley, he wears it loud. He wears it proud. He owns it. He is very bald. There's no questions. Okay. We're not talking about Tom Thibodeau here. We're talking about Danny Hurley. Bald, bald.

25:59PFT Commenter:All right. I got a couple others that I'll throw out there. Okay. If we want to go talking soccer, Pep.

26:04Big Cat:Pep Guardiola?

26:05PFT Commenter:Has he won a lot? I think he's won a lot.

26:07Big Cat:I honestly don't know that much about Pep. I know that he's -

26:09PFT Commenter:I'm going to look up Pep Guardiola winning. He's Hank's best friend's best friend. Yeah, that's true, Hank. Do you have any thoughts on Pep? Joe Mazzola loves him. I know nothing about him. Okay. Good call. Man United? Some team. I actually don't know either. I think he was Man City for a while, and then he was, I think he's somewhere else now. I don't know how much he's won. I think he's very, very highly regarded. How many trophies? Pep Guardiola. How many trophies? He's won 40 major trophies. They give out trophies for everything, though. So that includes 12 league titles, 16 domestic cups, 12 international titles, three champions leagues, and four FIFA Club World Cups.

26:57PFT Commenter:That's a lot. It's a lot. That's a shitload of trophies.

27:01Big Cat:I think I'll make this a non-soccer related one. All right, non-soccer Tom Landry. Do we know? Because Tom Landry had the hat. He did have the hat. So we don't know if he was bald or not.

27:10PFT Commenter:So if we want to eliminate him, was Tom Landry bald? I think he was. I think he was very bald. I think he actually had like the perfect male pattern baldness, Larry David. He had the hoop? Yeah. He was. Yes. I'm looking at a picture of Tom Landry. He was very bald. But the hat. I feel like. Yeah, I agree. That's a hat. I'm just throwing out guys. Get the discussion going. Matt Nagy.

27:31Big Cat:He's up there, too. He has to be. Yeah.

27:33PFT Commenter:He won coach of the year.

27:35Big Cat:I keep forgetting that.

27:36PFT Commenter:He did win coach of the year. Tarkanian, I believe, was bald. Yep. Rick Majerus. Yep. Rick Majerus. Yeah. But if he gets right. No, I'm just throwing out names, just throw out names. But I think you might be right.

27:47Big Cat:Like somebody told me Tony Dungy should be up there in that conversation. I think as it stands right now. I have one. Danny Hurley's got two college basketball national championships. Tony Dungy has one Super Bowl. Those are equivalent, I think. Okay. What about Scotty Bowman? Okay. Now we're getting into some territory that I'm not that familiar with. Some hockey territory. So Scotty Bowman. He won. He's a legendary coach. How many Stanley Cups does he have?

28:14PFT Commenter:He won one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. Nine in some capacity. Nine Stanley Cups as a coach. As a coach. That's a lot. What about a head coach?

28:29Big Cat:That's a ton.

28:30PFT Commenter:That's a shitload of Stanley Cups. I don't know. So that would be -

28:35Big Cat:Okay, respectfully, I would put Scotty Bowman maybe ahead of Dan Hurley. But who are the other coaches that have three? Off the top of my head, Bob Knight, right? Yeah. Roy Williams, I believe, has three. Who else?

28:55PFT Commenter:Oh, of college coaches, you're saying? It's Roy. Bob Knight has four, I believe, college coaches championship. Roy, who else? Jim Calhoun. Jim Calhoun has four, three. No, he has four. No, he's three. Three. He has three. Jim Calhoun has three. We're not going all the way back there. Hank just wanted to shout out Adolph. Coach K, Roy Williams. He's trying to think. Yeah, so, I mean, you're right, PFT. It's a good.

29:28Big Cat:Just a little thought starter.

29:30PFT Commenter:Yeah, it's a good thought starter. And I don't hate the take that he would be the best. Scottie Bowman probably hurts his case a little. Bob Knight has three. Jim Calhoun has three. Roy Williams has three. And then Bill Self has two. Rick Pitino has two. Cal still has one.

29:50Big Cat:Cal's got one. Yeah, but I mean, if Hurley gets this. He writes got two. He's young and still a lot of meat left on that bone. He's an incredible coach. He's a great head coach. I think sometimes, and when we talked to him, I was thinking about this. Sometimes he's such a psychopath that we just kind of fall in love with how funny is and how like how polarizing he is and we forget the fact that he is a very very good basketball coach x's and o's yes and a super smart guy yes yes he uh he's a hell of a coach

30:19PFT Commenter:and i we're gonna talk about it with steve but the thing i keep going back to is that yukon in the big east versus yukon in the non-conference is a stark difference they've lost six times in the last four years in the non-conference and this is a non-conference game now for Illinois Illinois has been it's I would say they're the least talked about of the four teams just because UConn's been there Michigan Arizona everyone's saying that's the national title I totally disagree Illinois is so goddamn good and Brad Underwood is such a good coach as well Underwood is 75 percent against the spread win percentage in the more prep time rounds So that's round of 64, sweet 16, final four.

31:01PFT Commenter:So that's tied for fourth best minimum 10 games for any coach since 1985. The top four are Chris Beard, Chris Mack, Dan Hurley, who's 10 and three against spread and Brad Underwood, nine and three. So he's an insanely good coach and it's going to be an awesome matchup. I think I feel like Wagler is just going to be I don't know. This might be his. He's already had his coming out party, but yeah, it's like even more so.

31:28Big Cat:I mean, yeah, when he takes over games, he's the most fun to watch. Yeah. I have no idea. In either of these two games, I think they're both going to be awesome games. I think that's my prediction is they're both going to be within five.

31:43PFT Commenter:I would love it. I mean, the fact that both spreads are this low.

31:46Big Cat:I think they're both going to be close games. If you had gun to my head, I would say Arizona, and I think I would say UConn, but Illinois is a great team.

31:55PFT Commenter:Rowdy atmosphere, too. Rowdy Like UConn, Illinois being there Easy trip for them Michigan always travels well UConn, Powerhouse I think it's going to be one of the more rowdy Final Four games Also, Illinois is the Just by point Differential entering the Final Four They're the fourth best team Seated three or higher To make the Final Four in terms of point differential They're plus 19.8 points in their first four games the best three or higher was 2023 yukon plus 2020 uh 22 and a half and they won the title so it's like yeah these get in the game that they played it early in the season just throw it out or steve will tell you exactly why the one thing he didn't mention it was also a game that was played on an nba cup floor yeah and it was brutal to watch so i hated that i i was constantly by you early in the season on nba cup floors like this is just because nba cup you get it but for a college game it makes no sense yep so that game's be great and then arizona michigan oh boy it's it's gonna be awesome big boy basketball big boy basketball the only thing i'd be worried about if our michigan is that uh they got to stop giving elliot caddo stuff that he's allergic to right before they leave yeah so what happened what was he allergic to i don't know what he was allergic to but he had to uh get medical attention uh he was carted off during wolverine's practice after suffering an allergic reaction that's like that's gotta be we're at the end of the season you gotta know what the guy's allergic to this

33:33Big Cat:sounds like some some classic tomfoolery some ohio state hijinks some some malfeasance yeah i don't know like yeah what are you getting allergic to in the middle of practice i don't know but yeah

33:43PFT Commenter:It does feel like something's up. He is going to be okay, though. Yeah, I think he's going to be fine. There was also, I think I saw there was the Yaxl was live. Was he live streaming last night until like 2 in the morning? Did you see a story like that?

33:57Big Cat:Yaxl, he's a... How do we feel about Yaxl?

34:00PFT Commenter:Well, I said I...

34:02Big Cat:He's an unbelievable player. He is a great player. He also seems to be very easy to hate.

34:08PFT Commenter:Yeah. All right. I don't know if he was live streaming. Maybe I just saw that in passing that was not correct. Yeah. Well, I don't like the... We talked about it. I don't like that he was calling out being disrespected by freshmen guarding him when he's 23 years old. But man, I don't... Michigan doesn't deserve another title after football.

34:33Big Cat:Yeah. I mean... It's bullshit. This is... We're living in the Dave Portnoy snow globe. This would be his final boss. He's gotten everything else But all he's focused on is how bad the Red Sox are

34:46PFT Commenter:That's the only thing that he cares about right now Well he did decide he was going to bet the Red Sox Every single game this year Have they started 0-6? 1-5 So that's a tough start Yeah, Yaxl is very good Michigan is awesome This is going to be just Titans I don't know I don't know about this game I keep going back and forth You like Arizona a lot? Love Arizona Is this a classic length versus strength? I think it's just length versus length. Yeah. And strength versus strength.

35:14Big Cat:Yeah. I mean, I feel like Arizona's bigs might be more powerful, but not by much. But Michigan's bigs are great on defense. I'm excited. Again, I think this is going to be another close game. I think, Hank, I would agree with you. I would say I would lean Arizona. But I think America is the real winner. That's my take.

35:37PFT Commenter:Absolutely. By the way, did you see the ratings for the Duke-UConn game was like 19 million people watched? It's proving true. For all the naysayers and people said that college sports are going down and the tournament has lost its luster, people are watching.

35:55Big Cat:We are in a golden age of Duke choking. Yeah. The last five years have just been a hell of a run that America's been on. So, yeah, you said 19 million?

36:05PFT Commenter:I think so. If you can find it, Max, I think it was 19. It was a lot of people. A lot of people tuned in late to see. And what a game it was. Did we cover that game?

36:17Big Cat:I think we're going to talk about it with Stanford Steve for a little bit.

36:19PFT Commenter:All right. All right. What else? Oh, no, I was off. No, you're right. Oh. Peaked at 19. Yeah. Average 13.4. I don't. Can I just say I never will understand how any of this shit works.

36:31Big Cat:Oh, the average rating and the one that comes out overnight? No, don't. Do not get it whatsoever.

36:37PFT Commenter:You could sit down and explain it to me. How are they tracking it? The Nielsen rating makes no sense to me. I get the concept of it that they just put it in average person's home and then they try to.

36:50Big Cat:But I still don't get it. Yeah. For a while, you had to write it down like you would have to keep a log of everything that you watched in your house and like mail in a notebook.

36:58PFT Commenter:Do you know that we have a person in this office who used to be a salesperson for the Nielsen ratings? He used to go door to door selling Nielsen boxes. Did you guys know that? If I were to guess,

37:15Big Cat:Stephen Che? No. Deutsch. Oh, really? That's classic. Yeah. I mean, Stephen Che is the number one box guy that we got.

37:23PFT Commenter:He is the number one box guy. What does a Nielsen box, like why would a consumer like to have that? The power. No, you get paid. Yeah, your views matter. You get paid like$100 a month or something. Oh, yeah.

37:33Big Cat:The power you would have. Like, you could watch whatever you want, and then the powers that be that collect that data, they would think that whatever it is you watch is typical of like 100 ,000 homes. It's a very powerful position. I'd like to get a Nielsen rating in Zach's apartment. Oh, yeah.

37:54PFT Commenter:Zach, did I give you an assignment this week? I can't remember.

37:57Big Cat:Assignment this week?

37:58PFT Commenter:Yeah. To research something? I'm vaguely thinking that I did, but I can't remember if I did.

38:04Big Cat:I think the last assignment was the fun facts for the group of 16. Okay. I gave you an assignment. Yeah, notes on the Eagles article. Yeah, I didn't ask you about those.

38:13PFT Commenter:We already did.

38:14Big Cat:No, no. Oh, no, I asked you to look up fasting. That's my fault. Yeah, fasting, I think we talked last week, and the fast went well. Yeah. We were talking fast in Arizona.

38:24PFT Commenter:I ended it at 50 hours. And I actually, it was great. Did you go blowout meal on the way back in or did you ease in? I eased in. That's what I called. And then an hour after easing in, I went blowout meal. What did you ease in with? Bone broth and some carrots. What did you blow out with? Just a huge plate of spaghetti and meat sauce. Oh, what an evening. It was great. And then ice cream.

38:51Big Cat:Zach, National Sports Podcast. broadcast what what were your notes that you took from the eagles article you want me to share a couple yeah just like some things that i noticed that were in the article uh regularly pushing back on things that would diversify the offensive scheme hurts may be scared of his own coverage not the most coachable also poor body language maybe hurts may be surrounded by yes men and uh with the eagles passing game breaking completely down last season they may have to heavily rely on Saquon Barkley moving forward. The yes-men thing, this is exact opposite of yes-men. This is...

39:29Big Cat:I was just going off the article. He's just going off the reporting. This report in itself proves that there's not yes-men because it's people that don't agree. That's why you tweeted him get fucked. Okay, yeah.

39:44PFT Commenter:You're being a yes-man right now.

39:46Big Cat:Oh, update.

39:47PFT Commenter:See if Jeremy Fowler blocked you. I did have two other things One, this is for you PFT A pro Wemby stat Are you ready for this? The San Antonio Spurs On January 31st This year Their record was 32-16 Their record on April 1st Which was Wednesday 57-18 They lost two games Two games in the month of February and March.

40:18Big Cat:Yeah. Wemby. They've been on a hell of a run. Also, our guy Stat Hole, he has put together a couple stats for me just to raise awareness to how good Wemby has been, how effective he's been. He's got a new stat that he came out with. I love this stat. It's just called things. So it takes into account everything. Like points are things, rebounds are things, blocks are things, steals are things. and Wimby leads SGA and things this season on a per game basis by quite a bit actually. He's the number one guy in the NBA in terms of things per game. And also his defense is just so much better than SGA's.

40:57Big Cat:Wimby is number one by far in the entire NBA. B-Ball Paul is second. And then I think SGA is eighth on his own team in defense. So if defense matters, I feel like you got to go with the NBA.

41:12PFT Commenter:You got to. You got to. Okay. I've got two. I have two other things. Go ahead. You go. Go ahead. No, you go. Well, I was going to say, what do we think as a group knowing that LeBron James has most likely watched us? LeBron was on with our guys. Bob does sports. It's cool. He probably saw Hank Dave laughing Hank's face when he was not allowed to play in the

41:41Big Cat:internet invitational he saw you and luke kwan pft he probably was blown away by me and nade shots

41:49PFT Commenter:camaraderie though he saw him work he saw me deny a bunch of appeals and do nothing else that's pretty crazy yeah i mean lebron like i said i've said it when you know we've talked about him doing the the golf swings on the side on the on the sideline it's like the farther we get the more i'm like i kind of love this guy like we're we're a lot more alike than maybe i ever thought that's you and lebron goes to work and thinks about golf then he goes home and watches you know bob does sports and the boys like yeah same yeah you guys are pretty much the same guy

42:25Big Cat:pretty much pretty much the same he struggles to to dunk now too yeah i i think uh in the in what i've seen so far from the video he LeBron might just be hilarious he might just be a very funny guy I don't like you guys just switching up I'm not I've always liked LeBron but I don't like you guys

42:47PFT Commenter:I'm not

42:48Big Cat:this is golf LeBron that we're talking about LeGolf but I'm not

42:52PFT Commenter:I'm not switching up

42:53Big Cat:when he was talking about Memphis that was very very funny in the video I've never seen LeBron do this sort of content before I like it

43:02PFT Commenter:Max I want it on the record I'm very much looking forward to the opportunity for LeBron, and there's probably a.05 chance he actually competes in the Internet Invitational, but I'm looking forward to that moment when he's standing over a big putt, and I will say absolutely nothing, but I will laugh when Dave says something. I'm a pussy. I was thinking about that as well, and I think in my head, in my imagination, it goes like him being like, oh, I think I want to do the Internet Invitational, and then someone on his team giving him a binder with things that Dave has said and other people at Barstool have said.

43:40PFT Commenter:And he's like, oh, maybe not. Yeah. Yeah. But imagine Dave standing over a LeBron putt. Yeah. I mean, it would be a fever dream. It actually would be like, how did we end up in this spot?

43:52Big Cat:Oh, LeBron and the Duke going out day one as a team.

43:55PFT Commenter:Yeah. By the way, Tommy Lloyd, did you see his press conference?

44:02Big Cat:I feel like he's the UNC head coach. I think he might be the UNC coach.

44:05PFT Commenter:He said, I've got my full focus on this team. Nothing is distracting me. That's how I've decided to approach it. He's not a multitasker, and his wife would attest. I'm 100 % locked in on Arizona basketball right now. I'm excited to see what this team could do. I have a real strong belief in this team. This team deserves my full attention, so that's what I'm giving them. I feel like when you bring in your wife as a shield, as a character witness, you're gone. Yeah, I think Tommy. Hey, guys, I swear to God, I'm not going to UNC. Just ask my wife. Oh, she's not doing a press conference? Well, if you could ask her, she would say the same.

44:38Big Cat:I think Miss Lloyd might be very active on Chapel Hill Zillow right about now. Yeah. I think she might be cruising, looking at some nice living rooms.

44:47PFT Commenter:She's probably getting some tips from Jordan. Yeah. She's probably getting some tips on where to brunch with Jordan. Oh, yeah. Let's look at Chapel Hill. Dude, Chapel Hill is one of those places that it does look incredible to live there.

44:59Big Cat:Gorgeous. North Carolina in general.

45:00PFT Commenter:5 million oh you're going 5 million top 5 state that's just land we just got land for 5 million he's got to he can't be buying land you can't be buying land you got to be buying oh 6 million that that's what you can get for 6 million there oh yeah that's a nice house that is pretty tommy lloyd you're gonna like that yeah two ball basketball basketball basketball probably

45:21Big Cat:tommy lloyd's doing yep are they ai'd it in to appeal to tommy lloyd i feel like don't i mean

45:27PFT Commenter:And Arizona's a pretty nice place to live, too.

45:29Big Cat:It is, but, I mean, you know, it's hot there.

45:31PFT Commenter:It's hot in the summer.

45:32Big Cat:Yeah.

45:33PFT Commenter:But it's a dry heat. Swamp ass. It's dry heat. The tiramisu sucks. It's a dry heat. Okay. We got anything else? Should we get to our guy? Oh, anything Masters pre-pre-preview? Sad Phil's not playing. Yeah, first time since 1994 that there will be at least one of Tiger or Phil. I'm sad about that, too. That is sad. I like seeing Phil out there. Oh, wow. He's looking at a$13 million Arizona house.

46:03Big Cat:You can get a better house in Arizona, but... Damn, that house is nice. The price is better in Chapel Hill. More bang for your buck.

46:09PFT Commenter:Some of these houses on Zillow, when you get to that price point, it looks like a museum. You would live in a house where you'd be worried that you'd break anything.

46:18Big Cat:And I think they're the kinds of houses that you'd still be finding out different features of your house after two years of living there.

46:24PFT Commenter:Yeah, just an insane Airbnb where it never feels like home. Yeah, I didn't know there was a fireplace in this room. Just one time I would like for like a$13 million house on Zillow to have in the living room just a lazy boy that looks like it's been farted in 7 ,000 times.

46:39Big Cat:Or just a room that's just a wall of TVs. Yeah. Yeah. Just give me, I want to know what normal house in America has the most TVs. I got a lot. Yeah, you do have a lot.

46:50PFT Commenter:It might be you. It might be me. It might be me. Okay. Let's get to our interview with Stanford Steve, and then we have Fyre Fest to end the week. Iconic summer moments deserve an iconic drink. Reach for Mountain Dew, an American original. From its beginnings in the foothills of Tennessee to your biggest summer yet. The refreshing citrus kick of Mountain Dew is the perfect companion to your American summer adventures. Enjoy the refreshing citrus kick of Mountain Dew. Tasting great since 48. Look for Mountain Dew in stores near you at MountainDew.com. That's MountainDew.com.

47:29Big Cat:And our good friend Stanford Steve.

47:31PFT Commenter:Whether you're debating watching that award-winning TV drama or re-watching your comfort comedy movie for the 10th time, choices are important. When it comes to choosing coverage, a State Farm agent can help you find options that are right for you. Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there. Now here's Stanford Steve. Okay, we now welcome on a very, very, very special guest, our Dude of the Year. he came on for conference championship week we're not going to see him at the final four sadly the tradition is is is broken it is stanford steve he's going to the women's final four with his daughter's shout out dad of the year due to the year and dad of the year so because we're not going to see him we figured hey let's have you on before the final four what a final four it's going to be get all your thoughts um are you going to regret not spending that sunday with us though because that was, I think we did it probably six or seven years in a row.

48:22PFT Commenter:Sunday of Final Four, go get wings with Steve. I'm sad. Yeah, it's Indy, Titus, get him back off the mat, get him out of the mud. Good luck. See how he's doing. But, yeah, if I'm going to trade you guys for something, it's got to be the family, right? Wifey and kids. Arizona, I figure it's a decent spot to go. Scottsdale. but yeah this is tradition that's broken and it's totally my fault and I appreciate the lack of ball breaking on your part Dan but I know it'll you guys haven't even gotten there and I'll probably pick up once a couple cocktails start flowing and that's how things go but we're big boys we can handle things you hit my soft spot because I actually like as a kid all I wanted to do is go to the final four and I am going to I'm planning on someday I actually was thinking about it this year but my son's just he's like he's six years old i don't know if he can do a full weekend so in the future i'm going to start bringing my kids to the final four so you hit my soft spot that's an excused absence but let's do it let's hop in what a final four oh i totally forgot pft braylon mullins hit that shot against duke yeah we should talk we should talk a little bit about

49:35Big Cat:about the elite eight right how we got here steve so you were at the game how close of advantage point did you have of this shot if you see media if you see rob douser from field of 68 i'm sitting right next to him like he has a perfect video down the other end i was uh on the other end first row saw the whole thing firsthand um so yeah that was uh that was an all-timer but i will say this and people uh have their thoughts on what they do when their teams play and whatever But this, you know, Dan has known me for a long time. And I do believe in the happiness hedge. I do believe in the reverse jinx.

50:18And that came to the all-out fruition pre-tournament. Let's just say Dan and I are in sort of the same pools. And there are investments made in teams before the tournament. And UConn is one of my teams for a possibility of some good finances. uh but to sit there and watch it um I I always expect the worst uh even being a Duke fan and uh it was I'm just sitting there the whole second half like Bill Raftery walks over to me at halftime of the game and we're just sitting there talking he's like what's the line on this game and I was like five and he's like who do you got I'm like the team that's down 13 he's like oh that's not good I'm like no they'll make a run we'll be fine like it's it's it the whole time I'm like our How's this going to be bad?

51:04How's this going to be bad? The history of Duke and UConn, you know, going all the way back. I think the last time in a tournament was that 0-4. But then, you know, you have the Laitner years, which really started up, I think, UConn's angst towards Duke. And everybody has their story about Duke. So then Duke loses, and it's always immediate. Like, when it happens now, because of the hatred, and you guys are in this tier, it's like, all right, I'm not going on social media for, like, three days. so I get to Monday night I get home Scott and I do the show it's probably 3 in the morning we had Alex Karaban on the show we did Bad Beat to the college basketball season we did something else so I just go on to post those clips and the first thing I see is Dan talking about how he came multiple times on Sunday and I'm just like this is why you don't go on social media there's nothing good uh that's going to come out you have to take a breather i go back to the packers super bowl with brett farve when they lost to the broncos and i'm in college it was like all right you can't watch sports center for a week because that's all they talk about in that and i think it's part of the grieving process uh but to dan's point i uh still have this dan yeah what do you got and it's all i have to throw in your face.

52:26PFT Commenter:Oh, 2015. Yep. Right there, buddy. Listen, that's fine. Listen, I know that I've said this speech a billion times. I'll never get that back, but you know what I will get is a ring every time Duke goes out in tragic fashion and holy shit. I'm like, remember, remember the old Patrick Waugh quote? Like I can't hear you cause I got so many rings in my ears. That's what I got right now with Duke because I got you. That was, I'm still coming by the way. Like right now, I'm coming. I bet you are. So I will give you credit, Steve. You called this. You said Duke wasn't on your list. Yes. Was it because of this is what happened with them this year.

53:06PFT Commenter:They lost three games total and all three of them, they had a massive lead and they couldn't figure it out in the end. My theory is this and you can tell me if this is wrong. I think it's just the arrogance of Duke for these last two years to... Hold on. And Caleb Foster obviously getting hurt hurts. But the arrogance of Duke the last two years being like, you know what? We don't need a true point guard. We don't need a guy who we can trust, who can get his shot off the dribble, who can bring, who can break a press, who can in those big moments calm down the offense. They thought they were better than basketball.

53:46That's great that you look at that way. I'm sure they assess the roster. And I don't see how they're that hateable. I get everybody's eggs towards K and how great he was. But, like, these guys the last couple years have been just awesome to watch. What I will say, which I think is maddening, and it's got to be maddening for John Shire, and to your guys' point, is he was the point guard in 2010 on the national championship team. He was the guy that they ran a play for in that exact circumstance. Give me the ball. They're going to follow me. I will go to the foul line and make the shots. And he did that throughout his career.

54:25So that's one thing. But, like, you know, you guys are football guys. And we say this all the time, whether it's college football or NFL football. And this is the way I kind of related to it. Is we have a rookie – say you got a rookie quarterback in the NFL, right, and he's going to the playoffs. And it's like, well, he's not a rookie anymore. He's got 15 starts. And, you know, he's seen everything he needs to see. And as a rookie goes, blah, blah, blah, all this. That's what Duke is. Relying on freshmen. You say they've lost two games. They've won 30 games. They're not freshmen anymore. They're still freshmen.

55:00And the whole thing starts because Cam doesn't catch the ball clean. He gives it to Saar, and Saar gives it to Caden, and that's what happens. So the presence of mind, too, of UConn in that instance to not rush and foul or do something crazy and just take it in and wane it out proved to be the best. And we had Caravan on. You guys had Hurley on. It's really hard to simulate those kind of instances, and they said they'd do it in practice, and they were ready for it. So all credit to them. It's been an unbelievable run. But, you know, to that UConn point, again, thanks for pointing that out, Dan, the list.

55:40It's 22 years in a row. All four teams are in the Final Four that were on the list. so it's it's dicey at that point in the game but UConn is a team you know what was to say three and a half weeks ago before the Marquette loss they're on the one line yeah you know like they're like and then you know they had I said all turn they just they were the number one team in the whole NCAA tournament that just need to get out of their conference with the bullseye they have how physical the Big East is knowing the payback that was coming with St. John's in a collision course in the Big East Championship to get back at them for the embarrassment that they gave them in Hartford.

56:20They just need to get out of the tournament. It was one of my most disliked things with the bracket. I was seeing St. John's and UConn, two of the three Big East teams. There was a third team that made it, right? Is there a third team that made it?

56:35Big Cat:Third team. Was there a third team, Max? Was there a third team? I think there was. You guys are the basketball guys here. Was there a third team? All right. Max Baseball. Max Baseball. Hofstra. Hofstra didn't make it. But to see those two teams in the same bracket, I honestly thought that they were going to meet in the Elite Eight to go to the Final Four. Duke beat St. John's.

56:55PFT Commenter:Duke Whistle. Duke Whistle beat St. John's. Got it. Okay.

57:00Big Cat:Steve, I want to jump back to something you said about John Shire. He's been in that position so many times as a player. Does that make it worse for him as a coach, the fact that he allowed this to happen? I go back and forth. I'm sure it's a rough one. Look at Tennessee. Great story. Three Elite Eights in a year, and they get run out of the building by Michigan. And then you have Duke, who was the one seed put in the toughest region and is right there on the cusp. Two-point lead with 10 seconds left. I think that's the art of coaching, right, PFT? You have to hand it off at some point. You can only put your guys out there in certain situations.

57:41I think they would take that scenario back in a second. If that's what you've got to do to go to the Final Four, they would take it.

57:49Big Cat:I feel like the difference there, though, is Tennessee overachieved big time, Duke underachieved big time with the players that they have. That's the expectation thing, and I get it. Everybody wants a championship or the season sucks. Nebraska basketball, I know it's not in the same tier, but like they lose to a rival in Iowa, but they made, you know, they won their first two NCAA tournament games of all time. It's a good season. I'm not saying it's a successful season for Duke, but that's how hard it is to win, man. And when you magnify things down for what UConn has done, it's absolutely incredible.

58:23It is. 17-1 for Caravan on teams. It's nuts. And that's all you ask for, right? In the NFL, you're playing all season to get in the, you know, they call it the tournament now, the playoffs. You want that opportunity. And what UConn has done with the opportunity has been unbelievable. And then you look at Duke's opportunities with double-digit leads the last two years in a Final Four and an Elite Eight. It hurts for sure because you're at that point. You put in all the work. You did everything you were supposed to do, and you can't close the door. But I thought this one was more of UConn making plays because I go back to watching that in the first half.

58:59The last 3-24, Duke doesn't score. They're up 19. And if you get that thing into the 20s, you never know what's going to happen. UConn's got to change their style of play. They got to pick up pace and all that. And now you're really up against it. But the last 324 Duke nuts, I think Sarmus, two free throws, and there wasn't too many field goal attempts. But that sort of weathered the storm. And then in that building, you know it, you guys both know it, that the 50-50 fans, I mean, it's a great basketball area here in D.C. and a lot of Maryland and Georgetown, and anybody that's 50-50 that's at that game is rooting for the underdog and against Duke.

59:37So it went from like 60-40, I would say, at the beginning of the game when Duke's rolling to definitely 50-50, and the momentum swung it even more. So it was a frenzy for sure.

59:48PFT Commenter:And I want to have your back, Steve. You are right. Duke didn't have a bad year. I know that you were off social media, so you probably missed it, but I listened to a bunch of Duke podcasts on Monday morning, and so you probably missed this but this is from the duke basketball roundup and they summed it up perfectly because you guys did hang banners so this is the guys it was the first time in duke basketball history the duke teams won 35 games in consecutive seasons and back-to-back years folks how greedy are you yeah are you really going to lament a lost season or something like that in a year where we won 35 games and hung multiple banners it was the first time multiple banners

1:00:26Big Cat:Hardware. And you just came again. I just came again. Steve, I got one more question about this. Because Big Cat played. You did win 35 games back-to-back years. Multiple banners. How greedy are you? Multiple banners. Where would this stack in terms of the disappointments of the last six seasons for Duke basketball? So just to run it back, there was the loss in the Final Four against UNC, which was Coach K's retirement. There was one season where Duke didn't even make the NCAA tournament as well. There was a loss against Tennessee in the round of 32, the loss against NC State in the Elite Eight, and then last year the loss in the Final Four against Houston.

1:01:10Big Cat:So I guess what I'm saying is this might not even be in the top four. Yeah, and when you're in the tournament that much and you go that far all the time, it's really hard to rank. Like, still the all-timer is 95 with Grant Hill, Scotty Thurman in Arkansas making that shot at the end. That really hit. Losing to Jason Kidd in 93 for Bobby Hurley not to go back to the lead eight, that one really hurt. So, yeah, it's up there. When you make it as loud, it's hard to decipher. And I appreciate you bringing up all those great times. That's what friends do. People do forget the time that Duke didn't make the tournament.

1:01:48Yeah.

1:01:48Big Cat:We don't talk about that. Who won it that year? That's a fair question, Steve. Anybody put up a banner that year? That's a very fair question.

1:01:58PFT Commenter:All right, Steve. China, Wuhan. Thank you for joining us. We appreciate it. I knew it. I knew it was coming.

1:02:08Big Cat:No, I'm just kidding. Thank you. I want to say something nice. Steve. I knew it. As soon as you texted me, I said it.

1:02:14PFT Commenter:What was my response? You did. Steve said, how much are you going to just do QCon? I was like, just a little touch, just a tiny touch.

1:02:21Big Cat:Steve, thank you. You gave out a very sharp pick at the start of the tournament on the women's side. You said it was Texas and USC, South Carolina, to make the Final Four, parlay them. It was, I believe, minus 125 I got it at. So thank you, Steve. That was a nice little nest egg. I squirreled away for myself. Now I got some bullets ready to fire. I hope a lot of people out there took your advice. I appreciate it. I woke up. I forgot about it, too. woke up the next morning to some texts of people that put it in, I guess the day they listened, they woke up with a plus money. So that's always great to do.

1:02:55But yeah, we're, we're, we're trying. If you listen, you could have had Duke not to win the region. Also.

1:03:00PFT Commenter:Just like choosing a show to stream state farm has options to choose from, to help you find coverage that best fits your needs. Talk to a state farm agent today to learn how you can choose to bundle save with the personal price plan. Like a good neighbor state farm is there. Prices are based on rating plans that vary by state coverage options, are selected by a customer. Availability, amount of discounts and savings, and eligibility vary by state. Okay, let's talk Final Four. I want to push back on something that's the narrative that's going around right now that the national championship is the late game on Saturday night.

1:03:33PFT Commenter:I think that's so disrespectful to UConn and Illinois, two teams that absolutely can win this whole thing. And so I'll start with UConn. We just talked about them. But just to put it in perspective, because we think alike a lot, And we said this conference championship week when we were talking about it, that UConn is just, they get beat up in the Big East. In the Big East, they always have moments. The Marquette loss, all that stuff. Just to put it into perspective, in the last four years, UConn is 56-6 in their non-conference. And their losses are, one at Allen Fieldhouse, tough place to win.

1:04:08PFT Commenter:The absolute disaster in Maui where they lost three games and it was just a total shit show. and then they lost to the national champions last year by two points in Florida. And this year they lost to Arizona early in the season when they were down a couple starters. They lost by four. This team, when they get out of the conference, is completely different. And so I think that discounting UConn in this game and possibly Monday night is crazy to me. How do you think this matchup is with Illinois? Because Illinois is also like they're just so good. They're so big. They do everything. They play great ball.

1:04:41PFT Commenter:They spread the ball around. Keaton Wagler might be the best bang for a buck freshman we will ever see in college basketball. Yeah, and I made the mistake of going back and watching the first game when they played, guys. Don't even bother. I mean, Kai Boswell leads Illinois in scoring 25 points. He handles the ball the whole game. Wagler's in foul trouble. I think he took three shots in the game. Terrence Reed was off an injury. UConn was still finding themselves, but UConn boat raced them. So, LaBalle was making shots. They made threes. Rybe played 22 minutes, I think. He scored more than Terrence Reed.

1:05:19So, that's a waste of time. Illinois looks like a totally different team now. But to your point, Dan, I totally agree. I'm just – I think we should be fortunate that we are getting Arizona and Michigan to play. Like, we're getting that game. And I said before the tournament, we need to see, like, The combination of Arizona, Michigan, and Florida, like maybe two games, but like those teams need to see each other. And then the way the bracket breaks out, we do get Arizona and Michigan in the final four, but I'm totally with you. Illinois, I mean, a two-hour drive, I believe, from Champaign. You're a Chicago guy.

1:05:57You would know that. And how Orange goes and travels, there'll be – I never doubt Michigan because of the Army that they have. as a fan base, but there's going to be a whole hell of a lot of orange there. And then you got UConn, which when I think about it and what makes Hurley and that program so special, they're not afraid of a goddamn thing. They go play Russia right now. They don't care where the game is. They're going to show up and play. So I think they're super dangerous. They still have versatility. Demery's not healthy at the point guard position, but Malachi's got plenty of experience, and he was the guy that finally made a three for UConn.

1:06:36He was the first guy to make a three for UConn. Whoever had that in your player props, you cashed in big time. But the winner of UConn, Illinois, can for sure win the national championship. The problem is you've got to win this one.

1:06:48PFT Commenter:Yeah. And you mentioned the rematch aspect. It doesn't mean anything. Wagler has been unbelievable in what he's done. And I think it was Stan Van that was calling his games and talking about the way he decelerates going to the hoop and the way he has size and length and his ball handling and the overall size. I went and saw Illinois play Maryland here, and I just couldn't believe, like starting lineups, they come out, how big they are. But I look at what UConn did to Duke and their size. They made guys run off screen. They made the bigs and all that size run and work their asses off on the other side.

1:07:25So I think UConn does the same thing. I do think Mullins has a lot on him. Like the social media aspect of today's game, a kid from Indiana going back, a kid that made the shot, I mean, doing the Today Show. How does he handle that? There's not a better staff to handle that than Dan Hurley's staff. So you have that factor in. And Solo Ball is the guy that looks like there might be a wrist issue, but I think he's under 30 % now from three. That doesn't bother me. He has plenty of experience. So I like UConn in the game. Illinois has been the most impressive team to me in getting here and what the road was.

1:08:05Having to go to Houston and do that, having to play everybody's favorite story in Iowa and having a game against them and a rival from your conference to get to a Final Four, that road is pretty darn impressive. But the experience at UConn and what Terrace Reed has done, we put up a graphic last night on SportsCenter. I just was thinking off the top of my head, 31-27 against Furman. being at the Michigan State game. You know, Michigan State comes back, takes the lead twice in that game, and every time after that happens, Hurley calls timeout. They run their offensive set. Where does the ball go?

1:08:41Down to the block. Reed gets a bucket. He's in the tier of Akeem Olajuwon and Bill Walton when it comes to points and rebounds and what you're averaging in an NCAA tournament. That's how special this run has been in the four games that he has played. So there's more trust for me in what UConn does and with that, and I believe UConn wins a really, really close game.

1:09:02PFT Commenter:I think Terrence Reed's going to be the big thing in this because I think Illinois is going to let him shoot a lot. I think they're going to say, hey, if you don't hit your threes, we're going to be fine, and we're going to make sure that you don't hit your threes and get comfortable when UConn hasn't been hitting threes and be like, hey, Terrence Reed, you can take 20 shots in this game. We can live with that, especially with the size that Illinois has and on the glass. They will not let you pound them on the glass so that it's okay. You know, Terrence Reed, if he's getting the ball down low, it's not as much.

1:09:33PFT Commenter:Terrence Reed's been awesome. As long as he can't get a couple shots, you know, he's getting a lot of his own rebounds. If they stop that, Illinois is just so tough. It's such a great game. It really is. And, like, to your point, too, they have so much size where they can just play behind Reed and say, shoot over us. Right. But he is that. I mean, his footwork is unbelievable. He was the best player on the floor against Duke, and watching it was just so damn impressive. And the other thing that UConn does is they run all that stuff at the beginning of the shot clock to get you out of position.

1:10:04Whether it's a switch, whether it's a backdoor cut, you are out of position to defend different things. And we haven't really seen that caravan made great with Klingen when they won the back-to-back titles. That stuff's still there. So, Illinois has to be buttoned up. But to their point, they have been very, very improved defensively. And that's why they've gotten here. They've buckled down. Not many people thought they could go to Houston and win an ugly game. They did that because they made threes, as you mentioned.

1:10:34Big Cat:So on the other side, Arizona, Michigan, I think everyone's going to be talking about the bigs in that. And like, well, Michigan's defense, will they be able to stop Arizona's bigs? It's like that's where I think most people's eyes are keying in on. But from your perspective, who is the most important player? Maybe not the best player in this game, but the most important one. I think it's Karchenkov for Arizona because when you look at matchups and who's going to guard who, I really like the idea of Arizona having Burries and Bradley to put on Cadeau. Being here in D.C. and going to the Duke-Michigan game, Duke beat them because they controlled the glass against all that size and Cadeau couldn't make shots.

1:11:15And now you have two guys that could trade off on guarding Cadeau. So I think or I believe Arizona can frustrate Michigan offensively. And then in Karchenkov, you have a guy. I'm not saying he's going to do it, but he can match size with athleticism against Yaks. You know, Lindenborg has been the best player, you know, in the tournament. When you look at from moments and flashes and and ones alley-oop throws. and he's, I believe he's 6 '9", 220, which is some size going up and down the court. But Arizona has a guy, Del Orso's a guy who could come off and make threes. And if it does get tight, my favorite thing about Arizona is they don't care who scores.

1:12:02You know, Co-P had some big baskets while Purdue was making a run. And Burries can make threes. Bradley is as good as it gets as far as having the ball in your hand late in a shot clock and getting a basket. So I favor Arizona. And then my biggest issue is the coaching matchup. I favor Michigan. I think Dusty May has an edge there, bringing FAU to a Final Four. And then also handling – we talked about expectations earlier. FAU had everybody back from that Final Four team. I don't even think they made the tournament. Yeah. And you have that, but he's had success with Michigan. He's got what he wants in that roster.

1:12:41And both teams are really capable of like a tidal wave, an avalanche in that. Like in the Tennessee game, what was it, 22-0 run in the first half that puts that out. Arizona comes out in the second half and shuts down Purdue. So both teams get a lot of easy offense off their defense. Who has the bigger spurts in that? And they're not great three-point shooting teams, and now you're going into a football stadium, and that also makes me weary of points, and I hate doing it, and Dan, you'll probably hate it even more. I think you got to take the under. Listen, I'm going to be at the game. Yeah.

1:13:21PFT Commenter:I can't take an under at a game I'm at, but I actually – Have you ever – No. Can you make a list of unders you've taken in person? Never. That's unbelievable. Start it. Just start it. It'll be fun. Yeah, never. You're going back to Indy? You've had great moments there as a fan. I'll go to – fuck you. I'll go to – you don't make us go back to – what angle did you like the most about the Braylon Mullen shot? No, I'm so stupid. I'll take – like I'll go to an early season Cubs game at Wrigley and see the flags blowing in, and I'll be like, over 6.5, got to do it. We can do this. And then watch like a 1-0 game and be like, fuck.

1:14:00PFT Commenter:Every ball hit hard ends up 20 feet from the ivy. So Michigan, I'm going to push back on you. I kind of like Michigan in this game. Okay. And here's why. And maybe this is why the matchup is so fascinating to me. Michigan is the best team in the country at rim denial and letting teams score at the rim. They don't let you do it. They have the size to stop you at the rim. That's where Arizona wants to eat. It's a true best on best, and it's kind of like a it's a gamble of which best is going to win i i i think it's gonna be michigan's i don't know i just love the bracket and how we got here with these four teams and we get here and we have a what one and a half point spread and a two and a half two point spread yeah maybe that's one that's one's one and a half two like it's amazing how it all works out i max is in a research guy i was gonna say i want to say the last time uconn was an underdog in the Final Four was in Detroit, and they lost to Michigan State.

1:14:59But anyway.

1:15:00PFT Commenter:No, they were probably an underdog with Ollie, weren't they? Oh, yeah, that was before. Yeah, it's 2014. They beat Florida.

1:15:07Big Cat:Steve, do you think that Dusty May might be distracted, like actively trying to recruit Arizona's players during the game?

1:15:15PFT Commenter:Good question, PFT. Yeah. Really good question.

1:15:17Big Cat:Maybe he's talking to these guys, and he's like, hey, I'll let you get 20 and 10 if you promise that you're going to be a Wolverine next year. Oh, I thought maybe because he was going to go to North Carolina. Oh, well, that too, yeah. So he's probably taking the phone calls on that side. But then I think during the game he's going to be like, I need this guy to be a Wolverine next year. You can't doubt him on how he's gotten, guys. He's hit A-pluses in the portal. January, February, Izzo, May, May. Hurley. Yeah, there you go. That's the calendar. Yeah, because Hurley's at the end of March. I am excited to see this matchup because I don't know.

1:15:55Big Cat:If Arizona goes down, do you think they try to shoot the ball? Do you think they try to catch up trying to hit threes? Or do they just keep it up and say, we're going to pound you on the inside? I think officiating is huge. We've seen Marra get fouls early in games. Awaka got in foul trouble against Purdue, who has plenty of size. And he's not the biggest guy. He uses his girth to move guys around. So Arizona shoots open threes. I don't think they'll shy away from those. It's just a matter if you get down. Like, you know, UConn, if they get down double digits, we've seen that before, they're not going to shy away from anything.

1:16:33Arizona tends to stay with it. You know, I mentioned Cole P in that run, making those like 12-footers in the lane. Those are shots you don't see anymore because it's three-pointers or dunks. But I don't see either team tensing up because both teams, I think Big Cat's a Ken Palm guy. What do you got for Ken Palm on these teams? For what? Michigan's what? They got to be top five offense, top defense.

1:16:58PFT Commenter:They're five offense, one defense. Yeah, what do you got in Arizona? And Arizona is four offense, two defense. It couldn't be a better matchup. And by the way, back to the over-under, I actually like the under in the first game too. I wouldn't bet it, but I think that those two teams are going to like – Off the trend and step up and take it under. The way UConn and Illinois play, they are very methodical with their possessions, and that's why they're so efficient, especially Illinois is so efficient, is they get the best shot, and they're not trying to make it a track meet. They're just going to get great shots.

1:17:35You should just, like next year, you know, when all those playoff expectations come for the Bears, just take all under Caleb Williams' player props.

1:17:43PFT Commenter:Wouldn't hit. Wouldn't hit this year. I should say if he doesn't play well then you win money under on props. No listen there's a time to take unders. It's in a movie theater When? When have you? Movie unders You go to a movie theater. You put it. You spray the board on the unders. You watch the movie for two hours. You come out and you say oh I won. I lost. I won. I lost. You go down the board and you're like okay I didn't have to sweat any of these out. I didn't have to worry about it. It's on games you don't watch. Yeah.

1:18:14Big Cat:Plain. But watching it I'm with Big Cat on this one. Watching a game live, if you're at the game and you took an under on it, you might as well not go to the game. Correct. It's like going to the game and be like, well, I'm signing up to have the worst time ever at this game. Yeah. But you could put yourself in a position where you can win really early. No. But that doesn't matter. No, you can't win early because with an under, you never know. Like, it's always alive. Like, you can – the possibility of losing that bet is always looming over you. Yeah. I thank the Chiefs for the last Super Bowl they played in, had that under it, which was dead lock, and Mahomes didn't come out of the game and threw touchdowns.

1:18:50PFT Commenter:Oh, so you're saying life's too short to bet the under? Sometimes.

1:18:54Big Cat:Yeah. Steve, while we have you here, you're also a football guy. What do you think is going on with Jalen Hurts? You know, I said on SportsCenter last night when Scott offered just the idea of Philadelphia and what it brings to the table. I think the medicine everyone in the world needs, whether you root for the Eagles or you don't, is a 4-13 season for the Eagles. It'll be great for everybody because it'll manage the expectations for Eagles fans, and then everyone else can remember what it was like back in the day when the Eagles were not a good football team. So I think that's a great synopsis if they just wanted to go 4-13 and let everybody else in the NFC East have a piece of the pie and everybody else that doesn't root for them root for their teams.

1:19:39and we don't have to cover every waking second of that football. I'm sick of it. Yeah, it's – I mean, and we don't even live there.

1:19:49Big Cat:Right. They are the economy, right, Max? I don't want to keep talking about them all the time, but they're just constantly shoved in my face, and I don't want to keep bringing it to Max because Max has health problems when he talks about the Eagles with his blood pressure, and I don't want to do that to him. So I'm just – I agree with you, Steve. I think let's – everybody just let's take a step back and let the Eagles do what the Eagles are going to do.

1:20:12PFT Commenter:Max, you should recreate the Leave Brittany Alone video. And what's the Flyers guy, Gritty? I never see him anymore. Get him at Eagles games. Yeah. Is that his name? Flyers are fighting for a playoff spot. There we go. Let's go. Light the lamp. Steve, what do you got for the women's? Do you have a bet? I'm excited for the women's Final Four. The tournament has not been great. It's just been buzzsaw after buzzsaw with all these teams. Yeah, just look at the point spreads and what they did. And now we actually have point spreads in the single digits, which is mind-blowing to me. I have like seven different bets on UConn to win it all from the beginning of the season.

1:20:54I got it. I think it was minus. I went and saw them play. They played in Annapolis here against Louisville. I think it was first game of the year. Bet them. I think it was around minus 190. It got all the way up to 280, I have. and now they're minus 180, and I think that just do that instead of having to worry about laying the 6.5. I do like them. How about a UConn men's-women's parlay, money line parlay? That could be profitable money. I just don't see anyone untouching them. South Carolina doesn't shoot the ball well enough. I think Texas and UCLA are going to have a battle. Texas beat UCLA.

1:21:26That's UCLA's only loss, but I just don't think the winner of that game has enough to keep up with UConn offensively. you know UConn the Elite Eight got strong and AZ Fudd taken away and the role player stepped up it's just what Geno does he grooms these players for these kind of moments I love this press conference talking about the the atrocity that the tournament is having to come to media at 7 a.m. in the morning and have a shoot around at 7 p.m. they went from Fort Worth right to Arizona so So you got to assume they're locked in. And I just – I don't like the matchups. As we've seen the tournament, the matchups for UConn, I don't like any for the opposing team, and I trust Geno in this scenario.

1:22:09I think Sarah Strong and AZ Futter are that good, and I believe they cut the Nets down.

1:22:13Big Cat:Are you going to be taking any unders at these games? I was actually thinking about the Texas-UCLA under. Yeah. That's disgusting. Familiarity with that and, you know, those teams seeing each other. and, you know, defending the three-point line. That's what you got to do when you're rooting for that under. Yeah. All right.

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1:23:06PFT Commenter:You're saving a dog's life. Try the new cans today. Taste the difference and make a difference. All new Stella Blue coffee can lattes now available at StellaBlueCoffee.com or subscribe on Amazon for 10 % off. we made the bet before the tournament that if Duke won it all, you'd come to Max's bachelor party. Is there a chance you could still come to Max's bachelor party? Yeah. Okay. Dude of the year. That's why it's the dude of the year. Be a great get. Be our... The number one get. That'd be our 1-1 pick. We could go through some contract negotiations. Okay.

1:23:42Big Cat:Listen, all you got to do is show up. Everything's paid for. Yeah, Steve, you'd be first overall. Of the list of invites we have, Well, Fanta.

1:23:50PFT Commenter:Fanta. Fanta number one. There's so many invites out there. Yeah, Fanta number one.

1:23:53Big Cat:Kevin Willard. Well, it's a package deal with Fanta. Tiger would be awesome. Tiger would be so sick.

1:24:01PFT Commenter:What about Scott? Scott? I haven't invited Scott. Should I invite Scott? There's zero percent shit. He's a big fan of Max's after the Maryland-Philadelphia discussion. Oh, what did you say? I just said what I was feeling. That's all I did. I understand. I understand. You got to understand something about Scott. There's lots of moments here. Yeah, Steve knows this obviously better than anyone. Scott Van Pelt is literally like a Jekyll and Hyde when it comes to the part that you see. He's the nicest guy in the world, such a good friend. But when Maryland basketball comes up, you don't want to be anywhere near him.

1:24:36PFT Commenter:He'll admit that, too. Don't joke.

1:24:38Big Cat:It's not funny to him when you bust his balls. There are no jokes about Maryland basketball. I agree. I don't think it's funny when you guys bust my balls every single day. The rest of the world begs to differ. But I don't find it funny. But we do. No, it's not funny. It's hysterical.

1:24:57It's not enough. If you see Scott at Augusta this week when he's got the suit on and he's all like, don't bring up Maryland.

1:25:05Big Cat:No, don't. And we'll have him on the show after the Masters as this tradition. Max, you can invite him face to face. Yeah, we'll invite him in. I have nothing bad to say about Maryland basketball. That's my whole point. You stole his coach. I'm not sorry that I stole his coach. I just said that I don't think about Maryland basketball.

1:25:26PFT Commenter:That's all I was saying. All right, I'm going to face something right now. Let's see if he'll answer. Because, like, imagine if we – He also can't hear me because I'm in the – Yeah. That won't even work. All right, we'll save it. When you say Butler's Cabin, that's a perfect place to answer a face time. But imagine, because everyone's been in this spot where you over-invite, and then if everyone says yes, what if Scott and Kevin Willard are just sharing a cabana on Saturday? Tops off just having some drinks with the boys.

1:25:59Big Cat:That could be good. That could be good. Yeah, men fences. I like that. I like that idea. Maybe we could find some unity between Marilyn and Kevin Willard. Yeah. Steve, one last question. You mentioned earlier before we started taping, you might have a draft nugget for me. So I guess you're an insider now. No, no. You guys have an insider. I was just doing some homework around here, down here in the district. What are we, 400 days away from having the draft here? Yeah. But for this year's draft, who do you want the commanders to get at seven? All right. So I think that if the physical and the medicals check out, which is a big if.

1:26:36Big Cat:I don't have access to any of that information. Caleb Downs, I think he might be the best player. What about Ruben Bain? I think he might be the best player in the entire draft. It's just about like, do you want to spend that pick on a safety, number one? And then number two, is he healthy medically? And then I've heard a lot of smoke about love recently, that if love is available. That's what I wanted to get to. Love is always available. Yeah. Just remember that. Keep an open heart. I didn't like that Caleb Downs didn't run a 40. I'll just say that. Oh. Anywhere. I don't like that as a safety.

1:27:11Just run it. I mean, they say the field they run on at Pro Day at Ohio State is 39 yards, too. So you're going to have a good time.

1:27:18Big Cat:I mean, I've seen enough of him playing football that I know he's fast as shit. Like, I'm not worried about his speed. Okay. As far as the running back goes, the last running back drafted in the top 10 to win a Super Bowl with that team is? the last running back drafted in the top 10 to win a Super Bowl with Washington team obviously with that team in oh with the team that they that they picked drafted him yeah I don't know it's gonna be like Reggie Bush but he didn't lead that team in rushing that year Thomas led the Saints that year and so you go back even farther it's Jamal Lewis with the Ravens wow thousand Wow.

1:27:58So that's what scares me about Jeremiah Love. Because I hate to admit it, but we kind of need a lot of pieces on the roster here. Well, that's the thing.

1:28:08PFT Commenter:It's like if you draft a running back top 10 as a team that's not one piece away and a running back is one piece away, I think Jeremiah Love is incredible. And I think he's – Guys like Ezekiel Elliott was one. Yeah. Todd Gurley was one. Obviously, Barkley changed teams. McCaffrey changed teams. so it's just something while you're watching are you guys going to the draft? no remember when you used to go to the draft? the problem with the draft is it's made for TV and it also and Friday and Saturday are way more fun as a fan and you can't no one's going to do an interview right before their biggest night of their life they're not going to fuck that up and the teams aren't there would you guys go to the draft if you were getting drafted yeah if i were actually would you go fishing with your dad fishing with my dad and was with jay thomas yeah yeah uh sorry if i was sunny styles would i go if

1:29:08Big Cat:you were sunny styles would you go to the draft yeah if i was sunny styles i would try to be on camera as much as possible with my shirt off yeah what if you were ty simpson yes no no i would if I was Ty Simpson. That's a big, like, when is this guy going to get picked possibility.

1:29:23PFT Commenter:No, but I would. Here's why I would if I were Ty Simpson. One, Orlovsky has been doing a great job of boosting up Ty Simpson. And also, we're going to have Ty Simpson on in a couple weeks. So as soon as he comes on PMT, look what we did for Josh Allen. Ty Simpson, top 10 pick. Might want to bet it right now before he comes on PMT. That's insider trading. That is insider trading.

1:29:43Big Cat:I think I'm excited that Pittsburgh gave all the kids in town the day off school. I think that's great. It's like, yeah, the NFL is in town, so the schools aren't going to be a thing. Don't worry about that. I respect their respect for the game of football, but I'm not going to go to the draft anymore, I don't think. It's just like it's so much better on TV, and it's not even that good on TV. Wow. So you're saying you could be better. I'm saying, well, yeah. I mean, the draft is like essentially they call names, and then you get excited about the name that you hear for your team. You don't want a booger on the desk?

1:30:17Is that what you're saying?

1:30:18Big Cat:I'm just saying the spectacle of the draft is not – I don't love watching it. I love finding out the information from the draft as it happens, but I don't know that you can make that a must-watch TV endeavor. They did cut down the time in between picks, so that's good. They did. Bad news for the Vikings.

1:30:36PFT Commenter:I think we're going to do draft in the middle TV, and then we'll have just UConn-Duke last 10 seconds on replay on both sides. Steve, I'm not joking. we sat in the gambling cave we re-watched it like seven times i bet you did yeah it was so good i'm coming in charge of that remote to keep rewinding i think that it was unanimous yeah i think who actually did it because i always wonder about the games because i i tune in like i said i was not tuning in after that game um but you have you guys had two separate cave like one new york and one chicago no we just had the one here we i just we just have a guy who actually I think it's been my assistant Dom has been remote guy all March.

1:31:17PFT Commenter:He's done a good job. So he just has them in his hands. Do you know what we did too, Steve? Is because of the stupid, you know, first two rounds, the scores are ahead. We taped the TVs this year. Love it. Great job. Dom taped all the TVs for us. That's a hell of a job because when I was at home, the off nights, on not being at the games. I had to put the game that was first on the direct cable TV. But then that game sped up. The second game that started, I think it was Iowa-Nebraska sped up. They were literally at the same time of the game in each. So, yeah, you had to not look at the top of the screen.

1:31:58Great job by Dom getting the tape up there. Yeah.

1:32:00Big Cat:It does seem like the easiest thing for them to fix. Yeah. It makes no sense. I can write a book on how we can fix the tournament. It could be so much better.

1:32:09PFT Commenter:Okay, Steve, you're the best Enjoy the final four in Arizona I'll tell everyone at JT's You said hi Yeah, are you going? I believe so Three kids under 12 I feel like JT's is a great spot to go

1:32:25Big Cat:That's fine Get the medium, get the spicy And then get the works I'm just going to get a variety And I'm just going to call that the tightest

1:32:34PFT Commenter:Yeah, crack the window Leave them in the car it's not that hot in Arizona hey I'll be right back I'm gonna eat 30 wings

1:32:45PFT Commenter:imagine Steve yeah he just leaves the car on with the AC it's got the sign that people put for their dogs like don't worry these three little girls have air conditioning I'm just inside eating wings add an S you didn't go to Wrigley for that Angels game did you that was 10 degrees no no oh my god that looked cold The fact that we had to play five games in March in Chicago, the scheduling making makes no sense. Every year, Major League Baseball, every year. Major League Baseball, opening day should be literally today. That's when it should have been. It shouldn't have been last week. It just felt off.

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1:35:16PFT Commenter:Okay, Fire Fest of the week to wrap up the show. Hank, wearing the Morgan & Morgan sweatshirt. Morgan & Morgan. That's a company man. Always. Always. Always. Yep. Nice sweatpants. Thanks. Going to a strip club later? What? That was a callback to our inside joke about Shane showing up to the bar on Friday with sweatpants on, and he said he was going to a strip club later. Yeah, those exact sweatpants. The gray ones? It was like, and they looked exactly like it.

1:35:43Big Cat:You wear gray sweatpants to a strip club. You are a brave man.

1:35:47PFT Commenter:I know Shane is rolling his eyes at his desk right now. He's so bad right now. And this is not, I'm not. You fixing it bolted? I don't want it. I don't. I don't think he ended up going, but he did show up to the bar. No, he went home and got changed after we made fun of him. Yeah. It was a tough one. It was a tough one for Shane. He had the exact same sweatpants on, and he's like, yeah, I'm thinking maybe we'll go to strip club tonight. And we all was like, it's gray sweatpants? I don't want to. I would not have brought this up, and I don't like to be the one to expose the boys. I wouldn't have brought it up unless it is topical.

1:36:19PFT Commenter:I brought it. It is topical. We did also. I took the boys, the Airbnb boys, out to dinner on Wednesday, and he just came down wearing sweatpants. I was like, I don't think you can wear those. he's like I didn't bring any other pants yeah he didn't I don't know what happened it's like the fifth time that's happened on a trip he got mad I was like I don't like you can try I just don't want you to get turned away and then he kind of was like I didn't bring other pants I was like why

1:36:47Big Cat:I'm gonna stand up for Shane sweatpants are they're comfortable but if you're packing for a trip you gotta pack

1:36:53PFT Commenter:at least you're also a crazy outfit guy that's not necessarily true all the time but yeah that's

1:37:00Big Cat:I always pack one pair of jeans at least. You've got to be ready to go.

1:37:05PFT Commenter:You've got to have one pair of jeans. Next year on spring break, we've got to get Shane. You might not own jeans. I'll tell a story about your friend. What's up? Can I tell a story about your friend? Now that we're on the topic. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was with BFD and his two buddies from high school. Yeah. And same thing. We were going to dinner, and his buddy from high school was wearing red Capitol sweatpants and a Washington Commander's T-shirt. And his other buddy was like, dude, you can't wear that to dinner. And I was like, this is where you get it from. PFT was like, yeah, come on, man. I would at least wear some nice clothes.

1:37:36Big Cat:Yeah, take off those Washington Capitals comfy sweatpants. Who gets dressed up like that to go anywhere?

1:37:43PFT Commenter:PFT is literally basically what you're wearing right now. I don't know what pants you're wearing.

1:37:46Big Cat:Yeah, 99 % of his shit is team-issued gear. But yeah, listen, I get it, Shane, like you want to be comfy. But going to a strip club and sweatpants, that's kind of wild.

1:37:57PFT Commenter:that's a that's a wild boy i almost could great so i think black sweatpants yeah say dark sweatpants and but gray sweatpants we know walking around shoved up with you know what we instead of doing

1:38:11Big Cat:like matching shirts for max max's bachelor party we should get matching gray sweatpants for strip club night no thank you get juicy written across the ass yeah all right no i am i am just uh just casual today i'm i'm sick i've got uh you actually are sick i've sneezed i don't know if it's

1:38:29PFT Commenter:allergies like i don't i'm not an allergy i'm not an allergy guy i've never had allergies in my life so why would you say i don't know if it's allergy i have sneezed rough estimate like a hundred times in the past day and a half i can't stand max does it did this uh a couple weeks ago remember you You're sick. Yeah, it was one day. Yeah, but you were like, oh, it's allergies. Like, no, it's not. It could have been allergy. But allergy people use it as a fucking, they're sick. And also, how could it be allergies? Still, none of the trees. It's changing the season. But none of the trees are starting yet.

1:39:03PFT Commenter:Wrong, wrong. It was nice on Monday. That's the thing. It was nice on Monday and Tuesday. It was warm and it got cold. Maybe some, I don't know. How do you get allergies when the trees aren't budding?

1:39:11Big Cat:Anytime the weather circulates like 25 degrees or 30 degrees back and forth, they're like, oh, it's the allergies. because they're changing the temperature. I don't respect allergies. It's called night and day.

1:39:22PFT Commenter:I'm not blaming the allergies because I don't typically get... You don't have allergies. You're not allergic to anything. That's why you can't blame it. You're sick. But I have some type of bug that has caused me to sneeze. And not sneeze once. It's like when I sneeze, I sneeze like six times in a row. And I've had like... You're sick. Every hour or so. You're sick.

1:39:41Big Cat:You're describing having a cold.

1:39:42PFT Commenter:Yeah. So I got a cold.

1:39:44Big Cat:Okay.

1:39:45PFT Commenter:Is that your fire mess? That's my fire mess. That's a pretty good fire fest. That's a really good fire fest. Well, like, you guys know when I sneeze, it's like it's violent and it's loud. It's worse than your dogs. I mean, I was doing it in front of Zach and he was like, what the fuck is wrong with you? And it's like, there's nothing. I mean, we've said this before, but there's nothing worse than like sneezing is like the worst thing that can happen to you sometimes. It feels good. I like to sneeze. But what if you're when you sneeze and you don't have like a tissue or napkin? It's not rocket.

1:40:11PFT Commenter:And you're in front of someone and you just have to like sneeze. but then if you sneeze into your sweatshirt, it's like, ugh.

1:40:17Big Cat:I hold it in if I don't have something. I'll just straight up plug my nose. Do you guys snot rocket?

1:40:22PFT Commenter:Yeah, no, my sneezes are way too powerful for that. You can't plug up? My brain, I think, would explode if I tried to hold in that power. Do you guys snot rocket? No. I love snot rocket outside. It's great. I don't really have that in my arsenal.

1:40:38Big Cat:It's awesome. I'll miss. It gets caught on your face. You got to really blow. Yeah, I really got to let it have it. yeah bro all right pft feel better hank yeah feel better we're all rooting for you thanks get well soon appreciate it um my pretty good week for me this week uh i did forget a birthday on april 1st uh i thought it was worse um i thought i forgot my dog blake's birthday um but i got mixed up it was actually leroy's birthday on april 1st so happy retroactive birthday to leroy my dead dog and then um i also i was actually just talking to zach about this the other day um and before we came in here today uh i decided that right now if you've been watching the bar stool uh state farm basketball league that we've done which has been a great series i did uh i pulled my calf on the first day of of warm-ups and the first day of the games and so i haven't really been able to exercise since then and then when i started to do rehab on my calf i pulled my other calf trying to exercise that so i haven't been able to run and i'm uh i'm worried that i'm going to get really really out of shape even more so than i am right now so i decided that would just start walking i'm taking a page out of frank the tank's inspirational journey and i'm going to try to get as many steps as i can and one way to do that is with those like little walking pads and i told uh i told the fellas i was going to get one and then your assistant dom said we actually have some that have been ordered that have never been used i was like okay let's get it set up so zach reminded me that i'm gonna get it set up the rule i came up for myself with is if i'm if i'm scrolling i'm strolling oh so i'm not gonna let myself just mindlessly scroll through my phone right unless i'm on the walking pad and i feel like that's gonna my steps they should be like easy 10 000 a day 12 000 a day like i could check emails and stuff but if i'm if i'm scrolling i'm strolling and uh but it's behind your crying it's really just started to uh to occur to me

1:42:37PFT Commenter:how much strolling that's going to be a lot of stroll like how many steps yesterday uh yesterday

1:42:44Big Cat:8 ,000 steps 8 ,000 i forget the exact number i was strolling for a little bit but i haven't got the pad set up i just i strolling i strolling on my own but i also we did sit down and watch the baseball game yesterday for a little bit um and i was on my phone for that but yeah that's if you look at your screen time just imagine if you took every second you were on your phone and you were walking somewhere i feel like that's a great crazy great diet yeah i like it i'll try it i also get

1:43:11PFT Commenter:a couple pads set up like randomly around the office you're you're scrolling you're strolling i'm trying to make a video right now a compilation uh i think i literally didn't make a single shot in three games of the barcelain basketball association yeah but you had that great block

1:43:26Big Cat:Fuck on Max. I did have that great ball. And also, you don't take it that seriously. No. Right. So it doesn't matter.

1:43:32PFT Commenter:I know.

1:43:32Big Cat:You made that layup against Cady.

1:43:33PFT Commenter:I did make that layup. You shit yourself. I made the layup, yeah.

1:43:38Big Cat:You shit yourself?

1:43:38PFT Commenter:Well, I mean, I didn't bail out. I didn't pretend I was ready to go and then fake an injury right when it started, so I didn't have to play. So at least I had that going for me. I wish this was a thing. At least I had that going for me.

1:43:47Big Cat:This is good. Actually, this is progress, because yesterday, Hank told me that I was just retired from all sports. Yeah. Because of my interest. Well, we have a soccer thing. People are just like, oh, I'm not going to say it because I support you.

1:43:59PFT Commenter:I know what you're going to say. Say it. Say it. I support you. I don't want us to golf less.

1:44:06Big Cat:Just say it. He's injured a lot. This last year has been bad. Never injured for golf. That's what Hank is saying. Yeah. I didn't say that. Max said that. Max said that. It's true. No, that's not true. My back was fucked up during the Ryder Cup last year. yeah but you played play yeah played through it right but here's okay here's what it comes down else you're too you're in a wheelchair is like literally yeah i was literally in a wheelchair with with the calves both being pulled at the same time and i i told you guys like a year ago i was

1:44:39PFT Commenter:like golfing well so it's like i think it might whatever's whatever you got going on it's working

1:44:44Big Cat:i think i said this on the show like a year ago for some reason in the mornings when i wake up both my calves have been super tight that was like a year ago i started to notice it then i pulled one like four times then i pulled the other one when i was trying to recover from the first one i'm deathly afraid that unless i do like months worth of physical therapy that is going to be the achilles so what why don't you do physical therapy i have been doing that oh you have you've been going to a physical therapist i went to one physical therapist i got the exercises and then i'm doing those on my own that's how physical therapy works usually i think if you're actually afraid you should go see the physical therapist like two or three times a week well i went to the physical therapist and they said here are the exercises you can do and then i'm doing all those exercises but hey yeah you're you're you go to the physical therapist once a week and then you do those on your own throughout the week and then you go back i'm not gonna go back though i yeah you're just you're just you're just you're you may well just looked on youtube like how do i do i got this which i might have done yeah yeah there's did you actually see a physical therapist

1:45:45PFT Commenter:No, I just looked it up. I did, but I did on YouTube.

1:45:48Big Cat:I had an appointment with a therapist on YouTube.

1:45:51PFT Commenter:This is the part with injuries. I mean, I do the same thing as you where I was like, I think I got when I hurt my calf. You did do the same. Yeah, no, no. I'm saying I hurt my calf, but I know that it won't. I know that I'm going to. I should be going to a physical therapist. When I hurt my back, when I threw out my back, I went to a physical therapist three times a week for like two months. That was the only way it got better. You can't get better unless you just go. I do have an appointment. I fully understand I did the exact same thing of just not going. I do have an appointment. But I admit that I didn't go.

1:46:20Big Cat:Next Tuesday morning, I have an appointment with the back doctor. Okay. So that's locked in. And then I'm doing the physical therapy that I got from the doctor that I basically saw online. And I've been doing those exercises. And I'm walking. But I know that if I play in the soccer thing, this would be a bad time to pop the Achilles. Agreed.

1:46:39PFT Commenter:Yeah.

1:46:40Big Cat:Agreed. I don't think it's a good time. There's never a good time. And I think the fact that I'm thinking about it makes it more likely that it's going to happen. So I got to get the Cavs back to being strong again. And then I can do your little soccer tournament tank.

1:46:54PFT Commenter:By the way, speaking of doctors, have you guys ever seen a dermatologist? No. My wife signed me up for that. I don't fucking want to go. You got good skin. I know. But they're going to be like, they're probably going to be like, don't go in the sun or something. I still got to find a primary care doctor. I haven't had one. He's good. I got one. He's good. He's good. Yeah, he's a nerd. like big time nerd good we need it yeah that's i i want my he's the one who like was like what do you do like remember i told the story that he he asked like how many drinks i have a week and i was like i actually don't really drink and then i caught myself i was like but i used to like get fucked up because i was like i don't want to look like a loser he's like yeah i don't why are you telling me this he was very honest with me it's good he's like i don't care uh all right my fire Fest you ready for this Hank yeah it is a true fire fest so last week we went uh down to Scottsdale awesome trip um we're gonna do it again next year it was great time so like I was with my kids for 90 % of the trip then we did the show and then on Friday I played uh nine holes with PFT and my friend I enjoyed golfing on Friday he did he really did I'm scared we had a really good time I actually enjoyed golfing, and that is my Fyre Fest.

1:48:12PFT Commenter:It's a fun sport. It was me, BFD, and my good, good friend, and we had a very good time. We had a blast. It sucks. We had such a good time.

1:48:22Big Cat:I feel bad even saying this, but since you brought it up in the Fyre Fest, we started playing some holes in the back nine as the college basketball games were tipping off.

1:48:33PFT Commenter:I said it. I said to BFD, I was like, Hank would fucking, because I had the game out. I was watching it. Yeah. We were about the first five minutes to St. John's Duke. I was like, if Hank saw this, he would fucking he would be killing me. No. See, I'm supportive. Nothing but support. Appreciate that. Yeah, this is Hank's dream. The fact that I was playing golf and enjoyed it is his dream. It's his last infinity stone. Me being like, hey, will you take me out golfing? I actually asked him to golf tomorrow. Yeah. But could figure out a schedule. No, yeah, because I have to go to Indy. But I was like, hey, maybe we'll find a in my stupid brain.

1:49:07PFT Commenter:I was like, we'll find a course. like halfway to Indianapolis. That was stupid.

1:49:11Big Cat:Just stop on the way?

1:49:12PFT Commenter:Yeah, it was stupid. Okay, Zach.

1:49:16Big Cat:My firefest this week is, I think people on the internet might just be

1:49:20PFT Commenter:too in on grammar, too in on spelling. I've been attacked, unfortunately. Spell protein. We did this, all I have is P-R-O-T-I-N-E. I don't know, I don't have the other one.

1:49:33Big Cat:Wait, P-R-O-T-I-N-E?

1:49:36PFT Commenter:Yes, which is not correct. We just did this at the desk. That's not right, but I don't have the other spelling.

1:49:41Big Cat:Why are people attacking you?

1:49:42PFT Commenter:This is what happened.

1:49:44Big Cat:Wait, wait, wait. What do you mean you don't have the other spelling on you?

1:49:46PFT Commenter:The correct one. Let Max tee this story. Okay, go ahead, Max. So we're sitting back here this morning. Zach shows me a bunch of replies to a comment that he had on Instagram. It was Gary Brecka. TEDx. Yep. He did a video of himself throwing out a bunch of McDonald's being like, you don't need this. And Zach was like, I'm getting roasted by fitness people online right now because I said what a waste to this guy throwing out all these McDonald's. And it's bullshit. It's like everyone's roasting me because it's all just fitness guys. Memes pulls up the actual comment and he says, SMH, what a waste, but spells it W-A-I-S-T.

1:50:32so no one is roasting him for his fitness they are roasting him because he spelled it W-A-I-S-T

1:50:41PFT Commenter:the seed oil guys and the hydrogen water guys were coming after me and I just thought it was via them being fitness pilled they knew waste was waste that's one of the things I don't understand with spelling or grammars are you trying to smash? when they read that can I see some of the replies? they actually don't because in this scenario you could be talking about his waist.

1:51:04Big Cat:It could be a great compliment. Those are two different things. You could be saying, wow, what a waist on Gary Brecka. That's a good point. Never mind. It sounds like I'm hitting on him now. Complimenting his waist

1:51:15PFT Commenter:because he's throwing out the McDonald's. That didn't click. Damn.

1:51:18Big Cat:It is a double entendre. You actually sneaky made a great joke. Oh, no. These people are being very mean to you. Yeah, they are. I just don't understand the hyperfixation.

1:51:28PFT Commenter:Oh, I love this guy saying 10-10 rage bait Like you did this on purpose. That one felt good, but I didn't have the courage to reply to me. Like it was not on purpose. Yeah, that was actually totally true. It was already. Oh, man. They are fitness pilled. They're big time fitness pilled. We got a bunch of red light guys just going in on grammar. Yeah. Some of these guys are crazy, man. Like they're just like, oh, yeah. Alcohol is actually no. I saw that. I think it was Grant Cardone 10X. He was like, there's no good benefits to alcohol. It's like, okay, yeah, there is. What about hanging out with friends in college and partying and having a good time and being able to talk to chicks?

1:52:08PFT Commenter:What about getting drunk?

1:52:09Big Cat:Yeah. That's a pretty good advantage right there.

1:52:12PFT Commenter:Yeah. What about having a nice twisted tea on a backyard in the middle of July? Yeah. Fucking sick. Great time. There's a lot of benefits. Love it. Good show. Hey, are you guys streaming?

1:52:24Big Cat:Zach, take the floor.

1:52:25PFT Commenter:We're going to be streaming on Friday. What are you streaming? Me and Max are going to play the Rewind game. We're going to build a dynasty of a VHS dynasty.

1:52:34Big Cat:We're going to play Retro Rewind. You're opening a... We're opening a video store virtually, and we're going to start this right after the act. We're going to go for a couple hours. This is the first week of the weekly Zach streams. I'm going to join him tomorrow. We're going to do it together. It's going to be fun. Zach. Hop in the PMT YouTube chat.

1:52:50PFT Commenter:Sign me up for probably not in the next two weeks, but after that, we still got to win with Oregon. we that's that's we still owe a national title with Oregon it slipped away it was right there his fingertips I also just was playing Fall Guys before we did the show because it was up already on the computer and I got to the final round and it said the graphics weren't

1:53:12Big Cat:updated for the final round and booted me oh that's a problem yeah Shane are you wearing

1:53:17PFT Commenter:sweatpants Shane can you get on the headphones I think he's bad he's not looking at us Shane The eye roll that he just did, I know the second it got brought up is what he did. Shane, are you wearing sweatpants right now? Are you mad at us?

1:53:29Big Cat:I'm wearing sweatpants.

1:53:30PFT Commenter:Are you mad at us? Is nothing sacred anymore? Yeah, I know. What the fuck? Credit to me, I said I didn't want to do this. It was funny. And I wasn't going to do it. Credit to me, I did say we did go. Yeah. You were having fun with it on Friday night. Maybe not. Hmm? You thought it was funny, and then you didn't think it was funny. He definitely didn't think it was funny. But then we got you the tear-missue. PFT got you the tiramisu

1:53:54Big Cat:the tiramisu was awesome no you were very no like the move to get me tiramisu was awesome I don't need a pity thank you I don't know what you want from me do you want me to be legit with my reviews yes I agree no I agree with that yes I do but don't say you enjoyed the tiramisu I enjoyed the move but like it was a good gesture it was a terrible order I just I want to be 100 % real

1:54:20PFT Commenter:with these I can't be a joke here For the tiramisu No, absolutely not

1:54:25Big Cat:This is the farthest thing from a joke right now

1:54:28PFT Commenter:Shane, for the tiramisu crawl We will all wear sweatpants You fair? I was gonna anyway We will all wear the same gray sweatpants And we probably will be going to nice restaurants Let's do it Maybe we finish tiramisu crawl with the strip club As you're all puking up tiramisu

1:54:45Big Cat:Got a lot of lady fingers at the strip club Oh yeah

1:54:49PFT Commenter:Alright, good show boys Let's finish it off with numbers 23. Three. 16, because Max Homa just missed a birdie on the 16th.

1:54:59Big Cat:16. I'm going to go with 90. 56. 9-0. 19. 10.

1:55:06PFT Commenter:Max Homa is very tan.

1:55:09Big Cat:Super tan. 99. Imagine living where we were last week. He's Italian. I got tan last week, and someone asked if I was on the peptide tan. Oh. Oh, yeah. Which is an awesome compliment. Did you see that guy's video? What guy? The peptide tan guy. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Someone sent it to me. And it was actually Spider. Spider sent it to me. It was like, I know you're taking peptides. You looked really tan this week. Are you on the peptide tan? It looked like that picture of Hank.

1:55:47PFT Commenter:35. 35. Anyone? Anyone? Anyone? Nope. All right, let's do one more. Going to spread my wings. 23. 56. Sweet 16. 90. Same number. Same number. It's my chance to shine. Someone's getting it. Sweet 16.

1:56:11PFT Commenter:73. 73. Anyone. Anyone. Anyone. We just had 73. We did.

1:56:19Big Cat:The number's hot. The hottest in the world. Happy birthday to recurring guests of part of my take. Frank Kaminsky and Eric Andre. Oh. Love you guys. Also Brandon Graham. Happy birthday Amanda Bynes. I'm retracting the Brandon Graham.

1:56:33PFT Commenter:When is Frank's birthday?

1:56:35Big Cat:No happy birthday to Brandon Graham. I'm saying happy birthday to Brandon Graham. Why are you being so rude to Brandon Graham? This is me and memes this segment. When is Frank's birthday? It's April. Wait, Brandon Graham. Wait. April. Wait.

1:56:48PFT Commenter:Oh, no.

1:56:49Big Cat:I think I looked up the wrong... It's Saturday. It's April 4th, right?

1:56:54PFT Commenter:Okay. It's April 3rd. I know. I know this show's coming out. It's remarkable how bad you are at this. April 4th.

1:57:01Big Cat:I think I'm allowed to wish Frank Kaminsky a happy birthday on Saturday on a Friday episode of Part of My Take. You're a joke. But I agree. Thank you, memes. With Hank.

1:57:13PFT Commenter:Wait, when is... Oh, man, that was good.

1:57:15Big Cat:When is Amanda Bynes' birthday? The third. Same with Eddie Murphy and Alec Baldwin. Oh, man. Jane Goodall. Jane Goodall. It's April 4th. It's not April 3rd. I'm sorry that I'm a day early. Hey, let me be the first to wish Frank Kaminsky and Eric Andre a happy birthday. Love you guys. Oh, Robin. Adam Scott. Oh, there's a bunch of birthdays today. Adam Scott? Yeah.

1:57:47PFT Commenter:Yeah.

1:57:51Big Cat:Oh, shit. And Luke McCaffrey. Happy birthday to Luke McCaffrey. We already caught. I already caught. Audio is going. Audio is going. All right. Yeah. Keep that in. Happy birthday, Luke McCaffrey. Looked up the wrong date. I am. I'm terrible at this. I'm trying. All right. We're keeping it. All right. We're keeping it now. Every day I try. I love you guys. Every day I get worse. Say love you guys. Love you guys.

1:58:20Thank you.

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