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13:16PFT Commenter:yeah uh i had one last thing i'm just very we talked about this on wednesday because max the phillies uh clinched the cubs clinched on wednesday afternoon uh then almost got no hit on thursday night which would have been like the only time that you can be like hey hand up we got no hit is because you were partying all night but it just got me so pumped for october baseball i Seeing the boys celebrate just got me so pumped.

13:42Big Cat:I love Shoto, what he said. Oh, yeah. He's like, the trick is you actually absorb more of the champagne through your skin. Yeah. And then he just had his boys just hose him down with champagne.

13:50PFT Commenter:It was awesome.

13:50Big Cat:Let it marinate.

13:51PFT Commenter:But that was the first moment because the Cubs are kind of in a weird limbo of they aren't going to win the Central, but they're so far up on the wild card. They clinched the wild card, and it was just like, okay, this is going to be awesome. Little home playoff games for the start. Going to try to go to every game. I'm ready for October baseball. It's been a long time. What would everybody think about the champagne? Hank? Is that fine? Yeah. No issues? I have never had issues with celebrating making the playoffs.

14:21Big Cat:I never said that.

14:21PFT Commenter:Yeah. Never said that. I didn't. Princessa. Never said that. I like your shirt, Hank. Thank you. Twisted Tea.

14:27Big Cat:I thought maybe Hank would be upset because it has to be French to be champagne. It's not French. It's just sparkling wine. Maybe we're botching the name of it. I know you're a big European guy. Could be Prosecco. Could be Prosecco. Yeah.

14:40PFT Commenter:The auto could be Kava, but I'm ready. I'm ready for playoff baseball. I'm ready to go. Max felt felt good. I'm not ready. I'm not ready. It's been a long time since Cubs have been in the playoffs. Five years.

14:56Big Cat:I posted a video in this shirt and a lot of people were saying it looks like PFT dressed me this morning.

15:00PFT Commenter:Oh, that's awesome. That's a great compliment. Yeah, that's one of the best dressers. One of the dressers we have here. I think I'm a very good dresser. I'll say this about PFT. he does get dressed every day. I've got my style. Yeah. And I don't care what anybody says about it. If you were keeping score at home and you had a box said, did PFT get dressed? You would check that every day.

15:22Big Cat:Yeah. People often tell me they can't believe that I'm 40. And I choose to believe it's because my great skin and youthful demeanor. But it's really just about how I dress.

15:30PFT Commenter:I do love when people try to shame us for being old. And it's like, yeah, dude, it's pretty sick. We get to do this. Yeah. I had some people doing that when I went on Chris Long's podcast a week ago, and I said, tits are back. The ass boys had their little run, but tits are all the way back. People are like, bro, you're fucking 50, and you're talking about this? Like, yeah, that's awesome.

15:54Big Cat:Also, when do you get too old to talk about tits? Right? Yeah. You're never too old to talk about tits. There's a lot of things that we do here that are, you know, we're too old. Juvenile, yeah. But tits. Talking tits.

16:03PFT Commenter:That's just good.

16:04Big Cat:I hope that when I'm 85 years old, knock on wood, that I get there, I'm still talking about tits with my boys. Yes, facts. Yeah.

16:12PFT Commenter:That's how I want to go out. Yeah. Just being smothered by them.

16:14Big Cat:Not fucking them, but talking them.

16:16PFT Commenter:No, if I ever come in and I'm like, hey, guys, you know what? I don't like tits. Put a bullet in my head. Just end it right there. That would be my sign. Something's wrong with you. I feel like now the pendulum's swinging too far back where butts aren't respected anymore. I don't care. We had enough butt talk It's tits time I'm ready for it I don't hate butt I don't either But it did get like Fat Naturals definitely went away for a little bit They did Yeah the swinging ones And now they're back And it's good Shout out

16:48Big Cat:I feel like Sydney Sweeney She's the one that spearheaded this movement

16:52PFT Commenter:She was like the Olympic torchbearer Came through and just lit the lamp back up

16:56Big Cat:Nobody had boobs Kate Upton Kate Upton was the last time it was cool

17:01PFT Commenter:True Detective

17:03Big Cat:Alexander Daddario, that was a good moment for boobs. When do you think boobs hit their peak? That may have been a deep cut. No, that's not a deep cut at all. Well, I don't know. I didn't get the reaction I thought I was going to get.

17:16PFT Commenter:I was just thinking about KB. Our good friend KB has a really good riff that you're gay if you know what happens in True Detective after she showed her boobs. Because if you watch her boobs and you don't just stop watching and go jerk off, then like who who finished true detective after that moment i still that's a great take i still

17:37Big Cat:don't know great take i still don't know what happened to the titanic yeah right that was the first boob i ever saw did it make it to new york no no i ever made it there we don't know i'm so straight i'm so straight i turn off the show if somebody you know if somebody knows where the titanic is they're gay yeah right exactly you just showed yourself bro yeah i always get to that

17:57PFT Commenter:I'm pointing the movie, and then I stop. I don't know what happened.

18:00Big Cat:That dude on the sub that imploded, a little light in the loafers, if you ask me. Oh, man. Call me old-fashioned. God help me, I still like a good vagina.

18:11PFT Commenter:We know you do. Remember that? Yeah. Was it Mount Rushmore?

18:14Big Cat:Yeah. Big vagina one-one. What can I say? Like a snatch.

18:19PFT Commenter:Vag guy.

18:20Big Cat:Mm-hmm.

18:20PFT Commenter:You're a huge vag guy. All right.

18:22Big Cat:I'm the confirmed number one vaginal enthusiast.

18:27PFT Commenter:on this podcast i miss these thursday night after thursday football because we're all so like a little bit loopy from the entire week it's just like what the fuck let's just kill 15 minutes talk vag talk talk jerking off to the titanic well you know why because the game played out

18:42Big Cat:pretty much exactly how we kind of had envisioned it it actually was the worst than we envisioned it

18:47PFT Commenter:because we were thinking oh we're gonna get to record at like nine o 'clock tonight and then the dolphins played good enough that we didn't get to do that yeah but credit to the nfl that was a good Thursday night game we got to remember there's going to be some clunkers on Thursday night football in in the spectrum of Thursday night football that was a pretty good game I would say it was it was a competitive game I didn't say great game I said pretty good it was a competitive

19:10Big Cat:pretty good game and it kept our attention through four quarters correct which is awesome but it was also kind of I would say it's one of the more boring 31 21 games that I've seen well

19:20PFT Commenter:because there weren't any like big big like yeah huge touchdowns uh yeah oh Seattle versus Arizona next week. That could test us. The next week's good. Niners-Rams.

19:35Big Cat:Niners-Rams is good. The Seahawks and... Nope. Seahawks lost to the Niners. I forgot about that.

19:42PFT Commenter:Yeah. Yeah. Okay. We got some tough... Oh. Oh. Baltimore and Miami. Ooh. Pittsburgh and Cincy. I mean Philly and New York is not Oh Jets Patriots That'll be a fun one That'll be a fun one That'll be a fun one When do the NFL not like Amazon Prime

20:09Big Cat:What's going on When do we get the first Al Michaels Unofficially quitting on a game I'm going to predict go back up

20:17PFT Commenter:I'm going to say It might be Eagles Giants if the Giants no show that game that could be a bad one also if Carson Wentz is still somehow playing in October that could also be tough

20:36Big Cat:or it could be great

20:37PFT Commenter:dude shout out Halloween by the way showing up on a Friday this year big time move by Halloween big time boob day that's a big time boob day but big time like Halloween you fucking rocked it this year. Friday, Halloween, nothing better. Nothing better.

20:54Big Cat:What do you think is a bigger boob day? Halloween or Valentine's Day?

20:57PFT Commenter:I'd say Halloween.

20:58Big Cat:Halloween for sure. For sure. Halloween. It might be 1-1.

21:02PFT Commenter:Well, July 4th is the only thing that can compete.

21:05Big Cat:Yeah. Everyone's in a bikini. Halloween blows it out of the water. Yeah.

21:11PFT Commenter:Halloween's big time. Big time. Can't wait. Guy like me, can't wait. I like Halloween because I like watching my kids trick-or-treat. It's fun. It's fun. It makes me a little teary-eyed. I've got to figure out what I'm going to be for Halloween this year. Maybe I'll just be a boob. It's a giant boob. That would actually be funny. Probably not appropriate. All right. Week three picks and preview and Fred Smoot coming up. Okay, before we get to the weekend preview, game time. The NFL's back tailgates, packed stands, that buzz before kickoff, but getting in nightmare. Cues, price jumps, getting logged out mid-click.

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22:11Big Cat:The Steelers at the Patriots this weekend, you can get in to the Lighthouse and see the Lighthouse for$149.

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22:51PFT Commenter:By the way, shout out to Uber Eats for everything. Boys had a little bit of a tummy issue. Uber Eats, Pepto, all day. Love that. Right back. I think this, we haven't had pizza yet this year, have we? I think we got to maybe do pizza. Pizza sounds good. Maybe pizza and cheesesteaks?

23:07Big Cat:Yeah.

23:07PFT Commenter:Yeah. All right, so we're going to do it on Uber Eats. You'll love being able to get all your personal. Yeah, Booth, you like that?

23:14Big Cat:Grilled chicken.

23:15PFT Commenter:Grilled chicken. All right. You'll love being able to get all your personal favorite game day foods delivered on Uber Eats so that you never miss a play. When football makes you hungry, get game day deals all season long only on Uber Eats. All right, boys. Week three. Should we talk? So they did it to us again. A little bit more balanced in the fact that we have four games in the afternoon. But they did it to us again. There are, I believe, nine games early.

23:40Big Cat:They don't care.

23:41PFT Commenter:They don't care about our schedule.

23:43Big Cat:They don't care how many TVs you have. The NFL just knows you're going to watch whatever's on.

23:47PFT Commenter:Just give us – like, I was thinking about this more. Why can't we just do a couple staggered starts? Like college football does a little bit, yeah. Do a noon kickoff. Do a 1.30 kickoff.

23:58Big Cat:No, Hank. Why? It's too much. Too much to handle. It's too much to handle right now when there's nine games early. I agree with Hank because what you'd run into is you'd run into games that are just ending at wildly different times. I like the pattern in the NFL where you know it's the witching hour.

24:17PFT Commenter:Yeah.

24:17Big Cat:And if you have multiple witching hours, like a late witching hour and early witching hour, then you can't lock in. And the thing about me is I got to lock in.

24:25PFT Commenter:You got to lock in. But nine is a lot. Yeah, it is. I can handle. I don't know why there's a difference, but eight I can handle. Maybe it's because we have eight TVs. That's exactly what the issue is. Now that I'm saying it out loud.

24:35Big Cat:It's like there's a shitload of people listening to this right now that are like, I can do four games. Yeah. But eight? Yeah, that's what our issue is. We have eight televisions, and it's personally inconvenient for us. Therefore, the NFL should change its policy about eight to nine games.

24:51PFT Commenter:Correct. What are you going to say, Hank?

24:53Big Cat:My biggest issue is when they only do three games in the afternoon. I don't care as much about the nine at once, but the three in the afternoon, it'll probably happen more times in the end of the season. That bothers me. Hank likes it when there's one at 830 in the morning.

25:08PFT Commenter:Yeah. No, I don't like that either. Throw the game. I hate that. I hate that. Throw the game. Bears-Cowboys game of the week. Is it? Yeah. In the afternoon. Hey, listen. That'll be fun to watch. If it keeps going how we've gone through two weeks, two weeks in a row, two weeks into the season, the NFC Offensive Player of the Year is just whoever plays against the Bears. So this should be a good game for Dak. Yeah. Jared Goff one week two. J.J. McCarthy one week one. Yeah.

25:38Big Cat:That would be such a hilarious streak if every single quarterback. I'm excited to watch that game, by the way, because there's going to be points. Yeah, there will be points.

25:46PFT Commenter:And maybe there won't be. No, there's going to be points. But maybe. But that's also what wouldn't it be? Perfect. Bears be like, it's it now. All right. So real big, big picture thoughts. Hank, I know you're going to like this because I know we've been striking out on the hungry dog. I saw some stat. It's like favorites of two weeks. Chill out. What? No. All last season, too. No, I won last season. Wait, I'm I'm I'm on your side. I'm about to give you stats that we've been striking out. There's been two strikes. No. All right. Let's rewind the tape here. Let's rewind. Let's restart. Time out.

26:18PFT Commenter:Let's call time out. Let's call time out. Let's call time out. Call it a quick tea. Let's not chirp the hungry dog till like week 10. What I was saying was, Hank, it's ridiculous. It's like the favorites of six or more are covering every single game. That's crazy. That doesn't happen. And it's unfair. That was my point. Got it.

26:38Big Cat:We haven't had any start. No big upsets. LeBron James is still perfect on his Moneyline picks. Although, it's bullshit because when I see LeBron talk about his thoughts as a sports junkie, regardless of his own sport that he plays, I follow LeBron's picks. They hit week one. He just didn't do picks for week two. Yeah.

26:56PFT Commenter:And now he's back for week three. Okay. That's some bullshit. Picking in shoes and taking a week off.

27:00Big Cat:But he is the Moneyline king. Yeah.

27:02PFT Commenter:What I was going to say to you, Hank, is 0-2 dogs of 3.5 or more since 2010 are 64 % against the spread. Those teams this week, Dolphins, which obviously we just talked about, Titans, Panthers, Browns, Jets, Saints, Giants. Gross. How about this one, though? 0-2 teams versus 1-1 teams are 70 % against the spread since 2010. 10 panthers texans saints bears there's some juicy ones there's some juicy ones i'm just saying we also have this is as early as it feels that we are we're in week three and we have

27:43Big Cat:potentially five backup quarterbacks already starting game yeah we have a a landslide of

27:50PFT Commenter:quarterbacks that are hard to get excited for i will say thank thanks to the schedule makers in the injury makers uh one of them is a confined backup quarterbacks it's self-contained yeah we've got Bengals and the Vikings but we have Jake Brown and Carson Wentz Mack Jones possibly Marcus Mariota possibly Tyrod Taylor all starting games so let's get into it let's get let's go through every single game we'll start with Packers at Browns Browns eight and a half point underdogs over under 44 and a half Matt LaFleur in September is 17 and six against the spread he's also eight and one against the spread in true road games he's a really good coach i'm starting to think

28:27Big Cat:this coaching thing might work out for him yeah he's a very good coach uh the browns haven't been as bad as you think that they've been they've had bad turnovers it was it was a misleading

28:36PFT Commenter:final score against the ravens as crazy as that sounds yes really crazy to say a 41 17 is

28:42Big Cat:misleading you can only push a team so far until they just completely collapse and the browns defense has been good they've gained a lot of yards on offense too they have they've outgained their opponent they've moved the football yeah they are the number one team in terms of yards per game on defense they're number one overall and yards per game on offense they're down there a little bit but the browns aren't as bad as you think they might be but they are in complete collapse watch yeah yeah it feels like they might have hit a breaking point i think i'm going to bet on them this weekend i think i will i think we're going to see more dylan gabriel than we saw last week i should start them they're not ready to tear the band-aid off with joe just yet yeah um but yeah i i feel like they're they're a sneaky team because you always get some wins or some covers that make absolutely no sense teams have been written off yep the nfl is a hard league to predict it is i don't i don't think that the browns are as dead as some people think that

29:36PFT Commenter:they are i got a pop quiz for you guys this one kind of shocked me how many weeks in a row has josh jacobs scored a touchdown pop quiz seven i don't know 11 okay isn't that kind of crazy yeah don't think that's talked about enough so 11 consecutive games josh jacobs scored a touchdown uh the record with a touchdown is 17 for christian mcafree remember when he was like down like minus 350 uh if he gets to 12 here's the guys since 1990 who have scored 12 straight weeks uh christian mccaffrey our good friend arian foster emmett smith derrick henry and ladenian tomlinson that's some pretty elite company there yeah pretty much a sure thing for them going up against the browns they're uh the browns just can't run the football they have no

30:25Big Cat:plan to run the football yeah their plan is like let's let's let old man joe throw the ball hopefully we catch them and we don't deflect them into the arms of our opponents but we're not even going to try to run and then their defense as good as it's been they're not turning the ball over at all on

30:38PFT Commenter:defense i also like where are the shots i want i want to see joe i want to see joe flacco take

30:43Big Cat:some shots yeah get the pass interference had the shots he has not and let him fucking be joe flacco this seems like a bad stat for for browns fans out there uh the packers have dominated the browns over the course of the rivalry if you can call it a rivalry uh the browns have not won back to back games against the green bay packers since when back to back game back to back two in a row 80s in the series no worse 70s worse 60s worse 50s 1955 1956 nailed it it was the last time that the browns beat the packers back to back you can't beat a back-to-back if you don't start with one

31:22PFT Commenter:yeah so this could be the start right now this is the the dawning of a new era yeah uh okay colts at titans titans four and a half point underdogs over under 43 and a half the indianapolis Colts have played near perfect. They've scored on 14 of their 16 drives so far this season. They have zero turnovers through the first two weeks of the season. Also, the Titans lead the league in penalties with 23. I'm calling this right now as my regression to the mean game. Okay. I don't know if the Titans can win, but I do think they can cover because they're a division dog at home. And as good as the Colts have looked, and I'm not trying to say the Colts aren't, you You know, like 2-0 looks awesome.

32:04PFT Commenter:Dana Jones looks awesome. They did beat the Dolphins. The Dolphins are a dead team. And then they needed kind of a Broncos, not meltdown, but mini meltdown to beat the Broncos.

32:15Big Cat:They needed some leverage at the end.

32:16PFT Commenter:They needed some leverage. They needed Bo Nix to throw that terrible pick. I think the Colts are good. I don't know if I'm buying them, like, as an elite team yet. And now they have to go outside and play against the Titans who are looking for their first win. I'm going to bet the Titans again. I'm sure what will happen in this game is it will be very close at halftime, and then all hell will break loose, and the Titans will lose by like 20 points.

32:41Big Cat:But I'm going to do it. Is Mrs. Ursa getting on the headset? She's got to be. Do they provide her one on a road game? I don't know the answer to that. It might inform my betting strategy, but you're right about the Titans and their penalties because if you count the penalties that got picked up because they got declined, they've committed 28 of them. they're minus 119 in penalty yard differential yikes and they've had 193 penalty yards that were assessed to them it's like a very well coached team in the colts versus what appears to be a poorly coached team in the titans i also mean though i also think that the titans they're uh they're starting the conversation regarding their head coach oh yeah because he He falls firmly into the Ken Wesenhunt, Mike Malarkey pantheon of kind of forgettable guys that have coached the Titans over the years.

33:30PFT Commenter:And I like Brian Callahan. I do too. But yeah, I mean, the penalty's got to get cleaned up. I just think looking at the Colts, they played perfect football, essentially. You can't play perfect football all the time.

33:41Big Cat:Yeah. They haven't punted. Will there be a turnover? I think that they're, I'm going to call it, they're going to punt in the first half. Okay.

33:48PFT Commenter:That's a, I wish we could bet on that.

33:50Big Cat:I think they will have over half of a punt in the first half. Over half of a punt. Yeah.

33:55PFT Commenter:Hank, can I interest you in the Titans? Yes. Yeah? I like the regression of the mean game. Yeah, regression of the mean game. That's what I'm coining it. All right. Next up, this is the confined backup quarterback bowl. Bengals at Vikings. Vikings minus three. Over under is 42 and a half. All of our lines are coming from the DraftKings sportsbook. Here's a fun fact. Carson Wentz will make history on Sunday. He will be the first player to start for six different teams in six consecutive seasons. That's crazy.

34:28Big Cat:The Eagles, the Colts, the Commanders, the Rams, the Chiefs, and the Vikings are the teams that can list Carson Wentz as their starting quarterback. Max is back. Max is back on Carson Wentz. I'm not back. I'm never going to be back on Carson Wentz. He bums me out to watch play his high little knees and his skinny shins and him flailing around in the backfield. And I liken him to the episode of The Simpsons where they have the monorail salesman that goes town to town. Yeah. And he gets everybody excited. And then he just leaves it in ruins afterwards. And you're like, why did we ever give that guy the money?

35:01Big Cat:Yeah. It's the one thing that might work out for him. He has been in the building with Kevin O 'Connell for, what, three months? Not even close. One month? How long has he been? When was the same house? He's been there less than a month. Less than a month? He got signed after training. August 24th. Yeah, how viral is the Kevin O 'Connell quarterback dust that gets put on people? What's the exposure that you have to have to Kevin O 'Connell to get fixed?

35:26PFT Commenter:That was part of my I like the Bengals because August 24th is not a lot of time to learn the entire offense, to be around the guys, to get first team reps, which he probably didn't do. Also, I'll say this. I think Kevin O 'Connell is a really great coach. I don't know if I'm ready to put him in the he can fix anyone guy. Sam Darnold obviously had a great year last year. But, like, remember two years ago when, like, Dobbs, he played good for. Dobbs played great. Oh, but then it kind of. It wore off, yeah. Nick Mullins, Jaron Hall. Remember the Jaron Hall game? That was bad. Yeah. So I think Kevin O 'Connell is an upper echelon coach.

36:08PFT Commenter:This will be a great test. can he fix Carson Wentz because like I I don't know Shanahan and McVay I'm I'm comfortable saying give him anyone and he can get a way to you know like figure out a way to win a couple games them I don't know I want to see it this will be it if he can do it with him then I'll

36:25Big Cat:put Kevin O 'Connell firmly in that group I I'm not ready to say that about cars I don't I don't think that Carson Wentz is fixable I think he's got too too much scar tissue yeah uh I I also was

36:38PFT Commenter:I flirted with the Carson Wentz, like, ooh, maybe, until I was scrolling Twitter and I saw, remember the play where he deftly avoided the safety by throwing a pick six in the end zone? Yeah. Literally threw the whole play was confined to the end zone?

36:57Big Cat:Yeah. Max is, I don't know why you're allowing yourself to get excited about Carson Wentz. I'm excited. He's a fun quarterback. He does stupid shit. He's funny. He's funny. and if he's good, that would be awesome.

37:09PFT Commenter:Yeah, so Dobbs, reminder, the Dobbs thing, it happened for the first two games when he was with the Vikings. He won the first two games, and then he lost the next two. One was a four-interception game, and then he won his last one with the Vikings. That was the 3-0 game. Remember that game against the Raiders? Yep. So I think, again, Kevin O 'Connell is a very, very good coach. I want to see if he can do it with Carson Wentz, and I'm officially putting them like the Matt LaFleur can do it, Malik Willis kind of category. Like Sean McVay can do it with Baker getting off a plane. Those guys, that's a different level.

37:47PFT Commenter:Kevin O 'Connell's right below it. Carson Wentz gets you up in that level.

37:50Big Cat:So they put out a list of the top 12 backup quarterbacks. Where would you put Jake Browning on that list? I would put him high.

37:57PFT Commenter:He's 4-3 as a starter for the Bengals.

37:58Big Cat:Which is what you hope for out of your backup. Can you go in and keep us around 500? Yes. So ESPN had him as second on the list, which is pretty high. Where's Mariota? Pretty high. He should be number one. Okay. But I keep going back and forth with Browning because he's not the most exciting guy to see get in a game. But I think he's able to manage it okay. And I think the more I think about the realistic solutions that the Bengals have at quarterback, this is going to be the one. I think we're just going to ride it all out on Jake Browning.

38:30PFT Commenter:Yeah. and see what happens after this because they with the signing of sean clifford like they signed three different versions of jake browning so at least they've got the same system in place if jake browning gets her yeah by the way uh one last thing about kevin o 'connell i think he's in uh fuck it full send mode because did you guys see who the vikings signed because if this works with carson wentz he's going to be full like hey hold my beer watch me do this desmond ritter yes yeah If he can do Carson Wentz he's gonna try to do Desmond Ritter and that's gonna be fucking

39:02Big Cat:Crazy I can fix that that's gonna be some wild Shit I would rather have Sam Howell I feel like Sam Howell would be a better option Because he will throw the ball

39:10PFT Commenter:Yeah by the way the Vikings so teams to play back to back Night games in first six weeks of the season Are one in seven against the spread since 2023 so body clock Okay

39:22Big Cat:Body clock so in the week after they played back-to-back games.

39:26PFT Commenter:Yes, 1-7 against the spread since 2023. Okay. Just something to throw out there. Steelers or Patriots? Patriots plus 1.5, over under 44.5. Hank, how you feeling?

39:38Big Cat:I feel excited. I feel like the Patriots are just going to be in shootouts, and this is going to be another shootout. Drake may look great. I enjoy – I think it's just my algorithm. I've gotten into the all-22 algorithm during the week, the film the film twitter yeah and drake may's film looks has been great there are some throws that the film geeks are getting full hard on are you a film guy now i'm not i just i it it presents itself in front of me and i'm and obviously i like the drake may one so then i think i just get fed

40:08PFT Commenter:more yeah yeah i'm a film guy's guy because i watch other people break down film i do think it's like

40:13Big Cat:i think i think it makes no sense because when you just isolate one play you can make anyone look good or anyone looked bad, but it's gone into my algorithm and I like it. Are you excited about the Patriots uniforms this weekend?

40:26PFT Commenter:Very excited.

40:27Big Cat:What are they?

40:28PFT Commenter:They're the red throwbacks.

40:29Big Cat:Okay. You do love a red coat. Yeah.

40:32PFT Commenter:I do.

40:33Big Cat:You root for them. Yeah. It's natural. I love the Patriots red jerseys. What do the Steelers wear?

40:39PFT Commenter:Just classic road?

40:40Big Cat:Just classic road. I think they're doing classic road. What do you think about the big news, the big Patriots news of the week? Do tell. I'm breaking this to you

40:50PFT Commenter:Oh you know it There's a baby in the family

40:53Big Cat:Cardi B

40:54PFT Commenter:Oh yeah

40:55Big Cat:Stefan Diggs had sex with Cardi B Ejaculated inside of her while she was ovulating Are they married? They're not married It's probably a secret marriage Yeah it's exciting Hopefully he can get his head on right And start making some big plays Family Time to grow up Stefan So you think you're going to win this game?

41:19PFT Commenter:I don't know. Like, we...

41:21Big Cat:The Dolphins and Raiders are objectively bad teams in both games. We lost to the Raiders, and it was a battle against the Dolphins. I could see us losing this game, but I'm excited to watch them fight. Do you know the last time that Pittsburgh beat the Patriots in New England? 2009. 2008, when Brady was hurt.

41:43PFT Commenter:Yeah, it feels like Steelers never beat the Patriots.

41:45Big Cat:Yep. Yep. you think mike tomlin i'm betting the over in this game i think i'll be on i'll be on patriots

41:51PFT Commenter:over over bets for the foreseeable future okay put the put the word out uh okay rams and eagles eagles minus three and a half over under 44 and a half this will be made in tv i think yep for sure i'll agree uh this is a big game because obviously could be playoff seating Rams and Eagles both top of the NFC Jalen Hurts coming off 253 yard passing so he's been hot what I didn't say anything 253 yard passing for Hurts yeah he's coming off that against who against the Cowboys and the Chiefs combined

42:39Big Cat:I don't care I mean, Max, you just got to lean into it because Saquon has been awesome against the Rams. Oh, my God. He's destroyed the Rams. I have the stats. You have the stats? I got some of the stats. Which one were you going to say?

42:55PFT Commenter:I was going to just say all of them, but go ahead. You go. You go first. All right. He's had two games last year, 460 yards, four touchdowns, 8.8 yards per rush. and he's had touchdown runs of 62 yards 78 yards 70 yards 72 yards so 460 yards that's insane for

43:14Big Cat:how is that possible i saw that statue and i didn't look i didn't i didn't care to examine it that's like four jalen hurts passing games that's so it's 460 yards rushing against the rams means like that one yeah that was good that was good uh yeah or how does that break down but guess what pft i don't know if you know who the rams have now put a forward they do have put a forward huge huge get for them yeah i don't know if the rams are are good or i don't know if they've played against bad teams yeah i because it's impossible to tell with rams we'll talk a little

43:51PFT Commenter:bit with smooth about it later you could say the same thing for the eagles though the rams yeah

43:54Big Cat:that's true good point uh the rams don't blow teams out in the regular season in the playoffs last year they blew out the uh the vikings but they just don't do it you can go back like i think two seasons you have to go back over two years maybe three years to find the last time that

44:08PFT Commenter:they beat a team by like 15 points yeah that was i said the stat on sunday yeah it was 2013

44:13Big Cat:or sorry 2023 week 10 yeah so they they don't blow teams out we don't know how good they are but we know i think we can say that the eagles are are probably good right eagles are very good

44:24PFT Commenter:There's Super Bowl champs. Yeah. What are you looking at, Max?

44:27Big Cat:Zach pulled this up. He just happened to pull up Jalen Hurts' Super Bowl throwing stats, but that's -

44:31PFT Commenter:Oh, he just happened to pull it up? What do we think about the fact that Sean McVay tore his plantar fascia?

44:38Big Cat:Football guy?

44:39PFT Commenter:Yeah.

44:40Big Cat:Football guy? He didn't miss a practice, right? That sucks. Is he going to be in a scooter? I don't know. I would like to see Sean McVay on one of those one-legged scooters. I did that in high school. It sucks. You got a history of that thing.

44:52PFT Commenter:Also, the Eagles have owned the Rams 9-1 against the Rams since 2005, dating back to 2005, including the playoffs. And the only time the Rams beat the Eagles was the COVID year. It doesn't count.

45:06Big Cat:Max, I got a question for you about the Birds. Are Jalen Hurts and A.J. Brown okay? We're just going to keep doing this. Now, if you look at the stat, A.J. Brown hasn't really done anything. And he's kind of a diva wide receiver, and that's a good thing. I think that to be a true number one. Friend of the show. You got to have a little bit of shit like that. Is everything okay between them? Yes. He went on someone's podcast and just said it's bullshit that every time when they win the game and every time he doesn't touch the ball, people get mad. I don't think anyone gets mad about that. Yes, they do.

45:42PFT Commenter:Max, I have a good stat for you.

45:45Big Cat:You just said a lot of good stats.

45:46PFT Commenter:Well, I did. Yeah, I did.

45:49Big Cat:The good news for that relationship is that it looks like Emmanuel Forbes might be guarding A.J. Brown this weekend, which would be great for the Eagles. That's your boy. Never my boy. That's your boy. You love him. Manny Forbes, skinny legs. Never been my boy. He weighs about 130 pounds, and he will have a hard time dealing with A.J. Brown if that's the matchup.

46:09PFT Commenter:I'm very excited for this game. Jalen Hurts, in games that he has started and finished, he is 18-0 in his last 18 games that he started and finished. That's pretty interesting. That's a great – now that's a hell of a stat. That's a hell of a stat. The Eagles, and he doesn't give a fuck about how. They just keep winning. They just keep winning. So are you nervous for this game, Max?

46:30Big Cat:Yes, I am. The Rams are a good team. I'm happy that we're at home. I think that mitigates a little bit of my nerves. Is that the right word there? Yeah, that was perfect. Nice. Yeah. I should have trusted myself right off the rip. The offense is nerve-wracking. The offense is nerve-wracking because the offensive coordinator has not been too creative with his play calls.

46:54PFT Commenter:You're talking about Kevin Petula?

46:56Big Cat:Yeah.

46:56PFT Commenter:Great Italian man. I don't like that they named him Kevin. I'm just going to say it. That's not an Italian name. I'm just like, you have the good last name with the vowel. Give us a Tony. Give us a Dom. Give us a Vinny. Maybe a Joey. Joey. Yeah, Joey works. Even a Johnny. A Carmine. Johnny Petula.

47:20Big Cat:Johnny Petula.

47:22PFT Commenter:Kevin Petula doesn't work. I just say it's an Irish name.

47:27Big Cat:Yeah, no. I would like for him to get into his bag a little bit more for this game because I think the Rams have a good offense. I think there's going to be points scored in this game, and I think we're going to have to keep up. Keep up.

47:42PFT Commenter:Imagine how many passing yards Jalen Hurts would have this season through two weeks if it was Salvatore Petula calling the plays. Sally Petula. Sal Petula. Holy shit. I mean, that would be incredible. AJ Brown would have four touchdowns.

47:59Big Cat:Yeah. Super happy. Dom Petula. Dom Petula would be awesome.

48:05PFT Commenter:I don't know. Maybe he needs to change his name. Okay. So you're nervous. Yeah, I'm nervous. I think I'm going to take the Rams plus three and a half. I just think it's going to be a close game.

48:13Big Cat:I think that's a fair pick.

48:16PFT Commenter:And I think the Rams, like we said on Sunday, they maybe kind of woke up a little bit offensively because Stafford wasn't in training camp, but that second half against the Titans, it was like, oh, okay. Here we go. Took them a game and a half. They might be ready to go. All right. Jets at Bucs. Bucs minus seven over under 43 and a half. Memes. Let's fucking talk right now, okay? The Bucs are, by the way, wearing their white creamsicles. Awesome jerseys. Awesome jerseys. I think the Jets could win this game.

48:48Big Cat:They should win this game. They should. They should win this game. Shortly. We're talking to rest? We're not talking to rest. 75 % of their offense is hurt.

48:57PFT Commenter:The Bucs. The Bucs. Yes. And Abuka hasn't practiced for two days, so they might be down to one receiver. They're down to one offensive lineman. Yeah. You think they should win.

49:07Big Cat:They're not going to. They were down some linemen on Monday night, too, but then they lost their best lineman after that game. Cody Mock is out for the year. How long can you keep this up?

49:17PFT Commenter:Three of their linemen, who are their starters, are out.

49:20Big Cat:Are out, and their left guard is a practice squad guy.

49:23PFT Commenter:Yeah.

49:24Big Cat:Are you a Tyrod Taylor believer? Excuse me, Tyrod. Tyrod. I am a Tyrod Taylor believer. Because your coach seems to be the biggest believer of all time. I mean, he's a better quarterback throwing the ball than Justin Fields. Well, so that's definitely true. Right. But what Todd Bowles was almost like more of a believer than Aaron Glenn was.

49:48PFT Commenter:Yeah.

49:48Big Cat:Because Todd Bowles says that he's just as good. He can run just as good as Justin Fields.

49:53PFT Commenter:I don't know about that.

49:53Big Cat:He says he gets out of the pocket. He's very elusive that way. He knows where to go with football. But he said he can run just as good as Justin Fields. I don't know that that part's true.

50:03PFT Commenter:No. He was running a little bit last week. He's just old and slower now. Well, fun little wrinkle for this game. Baker Mayfield started his career replacing Terod Taylor. He came in relief for the Browns seven years ago. I think he brought them. I think they were down like 14-0, and Baker came back and won that game. So, yeah, these guys know each other.

50:29Big Cat:They know each other. Tyrod Taylor, Terod. Terod. Terod is 2-0 against the Bucs. the Jets I believe have a winning record against the Buccaneers too okay and I don't think the Buccaneers do well in alternate uniforms I'll have Zach fact check me we can look that up now I would say that the orange creamsicles are the better jersey if you have to put them up against the white creamsicles whites are pretty

50:54PFT Commenter:nice though the whites are so sick because they're like understated the orange creamsicles I love them but they're obviously it's a lot of it's a lot of like orange it's heavy

51:02Big Cat:cream on the orange one yeah these white ones are a little subtle kind of a little bit smoother good yeah good uniforms uh we are extremely hurt i'm a little bit nervous here jets could win this

51:12PFT Commenter:but i would like to see the bucks win what uh are you guys gonna do a mayor's bet what do you want bet

51:19Big Cat:what you got hank i got a clock addition or substitution okay idea give it to us countdown to the 10 year anniversary of the show oh okay that's a good one yeah i like that one Was that about the Jets or the Bucs? Nope No, I just popped in my head Yeah, that was fine Well, they were brought up the booth And I just Yeah, that's a good addition I like that

51:41PFT Commenter:Yeah, what would you guys bet? Loser has to get a clock Countdown to their death And we just pick a random day And then we kill you Death clock? Yeah Week 3 death clock? Week 3 death clock Oh, alright Yeah That's what Jack wants to do

51:57Big Cat:Alright Yeah Yeah, we'll do the math and we'll see the average lifespan of an American male.

52:02PFT Commenter:And we'll just bump it up. We'll be like, oh, no, 85. 85 years old. 85 is a great number. That's a great number. Yeah, that's right. But it would also kind of fuck you up seeing it.

52:11Big Cat:Yeah. Every second matters, yeah. Then you just start thinking about all the things you... Like the time you waste. Like if you had an actual clock on it, that's terrifying. Yeah. It might make you more productive. Or you just spiral. It's like every second matters to me. I got to be productive. where I got to get out there and live life to the fullest. Too productive. Maybe too productive.

52:34PFT Commenter:Yeah.

52:35Big Cat:You know what Terod's record as a starter is?

52:37PFT Commenter:No.

52:38Big Cat:28-28-1.

52:40PFT Commenter:Oh, I love it. Yeah. For a tie.

52:42Big Cat:I thought that he would – yeah, a-ta.

52:44PFT Commenter:A-ta, yeah.

52:45Big Cat:If it's Terod. Yeah. If he – I thought that he would have more overall starts than that, but we also have to remember that he has, like, the weirdest, freakiest injury history of any quarterback, probably to ever play. The time when he got his lung punctured getting a painkilling shot by the Chargers team doctor stands out to me. I hope he's healthy. I like watching him play when he's healthy. Memes, good luck this weekend. I'm rooting for the Jets. I want to see you happy on Sunday. I want to see me happy too. I don't think it's going to happen.

53:15PFT Commenter:They could win this game.

53:16Big Cat:I think they could win. There's a great opportunity for Aaron Glenn, especially there have been some people already turning on him. Oh, man, that's crazy. Who's turning on him? The media. He's been one-wording the media at press conferences. He's been one-wording them? One-wording them, or two-wording them. He's just like, we've got to watch film. After every single question.

53:34PFT Commenter:Yeah. Kalijah Cansey also out. Also, we should shout out, Sauce Gardner's been really good. He's back.

53:39Big Cat:He's back. He had a little bit of a rough week last week against the Bills. A lot of holding penalties. But good opportunity. You shut down Mike Evans. There's no other receivers. So, yeah, what is up with the book exactly? It's a groin slash hip. So he's been out the past two practices Groin slash hip And you don't think he's going to play Dak He didn't practice the last two days He might still play but There's no way to know The question I was getting at is Who is going to see Brandon Stevens

54:16PFT Commenter:Sterling Shepard And who's it Tom Miller

54:21Big Cat:I could see Brandon Stevens locking up Tom Miller No, Brandon Stevens had another play last week that was just like fire him into the sun. The James Cook run, he just gave up. Okay, PFT, your game.

54:34PFT Commenter:Raiders at Command. Oh, by the way, I think they're honoring the Super Bowl team at the Bucs. I think Gruden's going to be there. Oh, that's cool. Yeah. Keyshawn. A little juice there. Raiders at Commanders. Commanders minus three over under 44 and a half. Is it Marcus Mariota time?

54:51Big Cat:I think it's Mariota time. I do want to see him play. I would love it if Jaden was healthy, but I also recognize it's early on in the season. And yes, I think back to RG3 and how he tried to play through a sprained knee, sprained MCL, and it didn't end up good for anybody. I would like to see Mariota. I think he's probably the best backup quarterback in the NFL. He was great last year. He was awesome against the Cowboys. and this is actually so for all the talk about jayden possibly being injury prone this is the first start that he will miss as a quarterback if he does miss this game

55:25PFT Commenter:oh did he come out of the game against the panthers yeah yeah so he on like the third

55:29Big Cat:run that he had of the game that feels like hurt his rib yeah we'll start yeah but he didn't miss a start after that because he played against the bears the next week i think this might be the first misstart of his career i i'm actually hoping that he doesn't play this weekend yeah and i mentioned i i personally talk of sophomore slump i personally asked him to i know it's hipaa to discuss his injury problem but i'm personally asking him to just take it easy yeah just take it easy for everybody take it easy uh we're gonna get some tom brady discussions because he did call the week one game of the giants and the commanders now the raiders are coming to town but it's a short week for the Raiders and it's a very long week for the commanders.

56:10Big Cat:So we had a mini bye after Thursday night. Yep. And then the Raiders played late night on Monday.

56:15PFT Commenter:Yep.

56:15Big Cat:And so I personally would take the commanders to cover the spread regardless of who the quarterback is.

56:21PFT Commenter:I would agree with you. It's been a long week for Geno Smith too. He claims that he watched the film 10 times for Monday night. There's no chance that's possible. Said it was tough to watch. Honestly, you can't just flush it. You have to learn from it. Take what they give me. It's that simple. Ten times.

56:37Big Cat:I hope that his big takeaway from watching the film ten times was give the ball to Ashton Jenty more.

56:43PFT Commenter:And Ashton Jenty said that. He said, I don't think you draft a guy like me to not give me carries and touches. I'm ready for the responsibility. I got to continue to get better. There's a learning curve to the NFL. None of the – it's very early, but for all the talk about this running back class, no one's popped. Yeah.

57:02Big Cat:None of them block.

57:03PFT Commenter:Oh, are you talking about Travian?

57:04Big Cat:Yeah, and Gentry.

57:06PFT Commenter:Yeah. Omari and Hampton waiting for him. Yeah. Scadaboos had some nice runs. Scadaboos has been awesome. Yeah. But, yeah. Caleb, what's his name? Caleb Johnson had the walking away from a touchdown.

57:18Big Cat:Yeah, it's been bad for running backs. We thought that they were back, and now every GM's like, that's why I don't trust any of you guys. Get me a Saquon. Yeah. I think that they're going to try to feed Gentry more because they got to see what they have, right? Absolutely. Like, for the most part, when I've watched Gentry and he's gotten the touches, he's looked good. he hasn't looked great but i think they want to see him at the the peak of his abilities and be

57:40PFT Commenter:like is this guy going to be a difference maker yeah okay uh next up uh falcons at panthers i don't know panthers are probably dead i don't know like i don't want to bet on the panthers but i'm probably going to end up betting on the panthers because they're five and a half point underdogs at home in a division game but i think the falcons are good i've got a fix for the panthers

58:01Big Cat:stop passing the ball to Xavier Leggett. Yeah. Stop throwing to Xavier Leggett. Tett McMillan's awesome. Because, so here's a stat. When they threw to Xavier Leggett, Bryce was one for eight passing, negative two yards and a pick. When he was throwing to anybody not named Xavier Leggett, 34 for 47, 330 yards, three touchdowns, no picks.

58:26PFT Commenter:Okay, get it to Tett.

58:27Big Cat:Get it to Tett. I like Xavier. I hope that Xavier is able to have a good season, but right now he's not playing well, and the entire offense kind of goes how he goes.

58:36PFT Commenter:Yeah. I think I'm going to be heavy Bichon on this game. Heavy Bichon. The Sports Info Solutions guys gave me a stat that they're heavy. Falcons are a heavy zone running team, and the Panthers have the worst success rate defending those runs. Heavy Bichon.

58:53Big Cat:They love giving them the ball at running back. In fact, they also love sending him out to a slot or receiver position and then throwing him. Yeah, the offense runs through Bijan.

59:02PFT Commenter:Yeah. Okay, so Texans at Jaguars. Jaguars minus one and a half over under 44 and a half. This is the ninth final game in the early slate. What are we thinking? Texans have – listen, the Texans are on two, but they also have lost to the Bucs and the Rams. Hungry Dog runs faster.

59:21Big Cat:Oh, yeah.

59:22PFT Commenter:Defense looks good. C.J. Stroud said they have to have the hard conversations in the locker room. What do you think those are? Do you guys want to do a couple hard conversations? I'd like to do a hard conversation real quick.

59:36Big Cat:The hard conversation about their running backs who are named Chubb and Woody?

59:41PFT Commenter:That's probably hard.

59:42Big Cat:Because I actually went back, and I think that the Texans have led the league in hilarious backfield combinations over the last 15 years. Okay. They've got Chubb and Woody. they had smelly johnson they had arian klutz and they had david duke oh they're just addicted to having funny name combinations that line up for them we need to get a richard when joe mixon gets

1:00:06PFT Commenter:back yeah that'd be good richard mixon would be hilarious yeah or mixon and then at water

1:00:12Big Cat:is there an at water in the nfl right now steve get him on there but yeah let's have a hard

1:00:18PFT Commenter:conversation about about the texans uh well no i was gonna have a hard conversation about the texans i was gonna have a hard conversation uh the rider cup is out i think i'm really really bad at golf boys i think i'm ready to admit that i'm it's not my sport i don't know what to do i was gonna say bad tape out there the shot tracker on my drive that went like two inches was very mean i was gonna say at least you're having fun out there but you're not i was having fun at the tournament all non-golf parts of the tournament i had a blast hanging with the boys like we hung out like we were staying i think it was me you wit kirk biz at a cabin we hung out every night in the backyard in the patio uh was so much fun soon i had to play golf wasn't fun

1:01:05Big Cat:i i i would like to say this when it comes to and this is in general with golf because people People are saying you're terrible at golf. People are saying PFT is terrible at golf. People are saying I'm terrible at golf. They're like, oh, all you do is golf. First of all, golf is about having fun with your boys.

1:01:23PFT Commenter:Reminder, by the way, we're having a hard conversation right now.

1:01:29Big Cat:I guess, I don't know, this is a hard conversation.

1:01:31PFT Commenter:This is more just a rant, but it's like golf. Keep it to heart. Here's a hard conversation. If you think you're good at golf, you're just as far away from being a pro as we are. You have a 0.0 % chance of being a pro as we do.

1:01:44Big Cat:If you're a 2 handicap or a 25 handicap, we have the same amount of chance of going pro. So that's a fact. And the beauty of golf is the handicap system. You just have to be better than you normally are on average that day. Yeah, that is a fact. It's a fact, Hank. It is a hard conversation. Also, alternate shot is the most stressful format that you can possibly play in. Oh, it sucks so bad. Especially if you're teamed up with somebody that's much better than you. Yeah. And then you just feel like a raging piece of shit the entire time because you are the entire reason why your team might not be winning.

1:02:16PFT Commenter:Yeah, I'm a scramble guy. Because then you can just be like, hey, you're not going to get a lot from me. You'll get a couple, but you're not going to get a lot. Yeah, that's a good point. Booth, you guys want to have a hard conversation? How's the diet going? it's okay down 17 through two max look at me right now we're having a hard conversation we're doing the cj stroud the texans are having hard conversations right now it's not easy conversation time it's hard conversation time

1:02:42Big Cat:i didn't have a great week but you know it ended up i i just didn't didn't lose any weight this week but i barely i didn't really gain any either i gained a half a pound i gained a half a pound That's nothing Also the week's not over

1:02:55PFT Commenter:I barely gained any weight this week I mean gaining a half a pound Yeah that's basically losing weight That's nothing

1:03:01Big Cat:And I had a bad week But I had some good days Mixed in with some bad days What was it that did it for you?

1:03:14Big Cat:This weekend I got super drunk One night And then I woke up I woke up the night I know

1:03:21PFT Commenter:One thing about our guy

1:03:22Big Cat:Max if you don't let him drink beers he's gonna die so yeah I woke up the next morning I was like at least I didn't drunk eat and then my fiance was like you ordered so much taco last night what you got to do Max you start the night off and you're like I'm gonna drink healthy tonight and you drink a vodka soda for your first drink and then after that then you're like oh fuck it I'll just have some beers but at least you had that first drink as a vodka soda yeah no I started with two martinis that night but that's basically a vodka soda pretty that's what i love about max

1:03:52PFT Commenter:though because he's just like i was talking about his diet i guess might have been a couple weeks months ago and you were just like i was like what about cutting out drinking he's like i gotta drink like 20 30 beers yeah i mean especially during football season it's like come on it's there's

1:04:09Big Cat:nothing better than like a saturday in chicago going from bar to bar with all of your boys yes Like you have a different bar for a different for the different slate. Everything. All the bets are together. You're going to drink 20 beers. I'm going to drink 20 beers on a Saturday.

1:04:25PFT Commenter:There is not the like bar hopping like the casual bar hopping when you just all you do is change like a little like the location and the angle of what you're looking at TVs by going to a different bar. And you all of a sudden like, oh, this is a completely different experience. There's nothing bad. Yeah, it's so true. You're like, oh, I got a new I can stay here for another three hours. and then you switch it again. Another three hours. It's the best. It's the best. All right. What game are we even on? We're on the Texan Jaguars. Okay.

1:04:54Big Cat:Down 17, by the way, collectively. Let's go. Zach is being a beast. Zach looks great.

1:04:59PFT Commenter:That was hard conversations by PMT. Okay. Afternoon slate. Do we want to talk about Brian Thomas at all?

1:05:08Big Cat:Yeah, he's got some bad tape. Bad tape out there. I've heard also this might just be like a Twitter rumor that he's going through something personal.

1:05:16PFT Commenter:Oh.

1:05:16Big Cat:In which case, that'd be bad. But then Liam Cohen said that he's got a wrist problem.

1:05:20PFT Commenter:Ah.

1:05:21Big Cat:So he might have alligator wrists. Okay. Not the full arm.

1:05:23PFT Commenter:We got to get that fixed out.

1:05:25Big Cat:Hard conversation about Charles Hunter? Or not yet?

1:05:28PFT Commenter:He is. That was bullshit defensive pass interference.

1:05:32Big Cat:He's also the leading receiver for the Jaguars. Nine catches. That was a hard conversation.

1:05:37PFT Commenter:I like hard conversations. T.A. Stroup. Shout out to T.A. Stroup. We're having a hard conversation. All right. Broncos at Chargers. Chargers minus two and a half. The over under is 45 and a half. Regression of the mean? I kind of like the Broncos. I feel like this is one of those games that if the Chargers kill the Broncos, the Chargers are just really fucking good. I think they're very good, but if they kill the Broncos, they're just really fucking good.

1:06:06Big Cat:I think we're on stranglehold watch for the Chargers. Yeah, if they win this, it'd be 3-0. 3-0 all games in the division. Yeah. That feels like we're in stranglehold territory.

1:06:14PFT Commenter:Yeah. Yeah. Sean Payton did come out and basically took blame for the loss against the Colts, which I feel you'd be pissed if you're a Broncos fan, but also nice that you can stop arguing about leverage because he literally came out and said, yeah, that was leverage. And also I fucked up. I shouldn't have been doing an aggressive field goal block on a 60 yard field goal. That was my mistake. Yep. Yep. He said it. And so, yeah, I'm going to be very interesting. No Khalil Mack, obviously. I feel like the Broncos, I'm probably going to take the Broncos in this game, but it might just be. Did you guys watch that Quentin Johnson touch?

1:06:52PFT Commenter:I watched it probably like 15 times. Justin Herbert throwing a 60-yard ball. On a rope. I know there's been a ton of unbelievable passes, but the fact that Quentin Johnson didn't even stop a little bit of his stride, it was just perfection i thought you said the fact that he caught it well yeah that was a perfect pass he's been catching the ball yeah he's been better this year yeah uh but that thing was like it was a fucking bomb that somehow floated into his arms as he was running and he never broke

1:07:24Big Cat:stride you know what i love about that i think from that camera angle it was like a what 54 yards in the air yeah i don't think it ever left the screen did it no and it looked you could watch

1:07:34PFT Commenter:the ball the entire time and it was so like it doesn't justin herbert has effortless like arm

1:07:41Big Cat:strength oh it didn't even come close to leaving the screen no it was perfect that was just a laser

1:07:46PFT Commenter:beam that he threw and shout out the charges i think they finally have realized hey we should let our really really good quarterback throw the ball yeah let him cook a little bit let him cook

1:07:54Big Cat:uh yeah i i think i like the broncos too though even though the charges have been awesome this year i just feel like this is uh this is a very important game for the broncos they can't they can't lose last week and then not respond from it uh yes i want to throw you guys a stat real quick

1:08:11PFT Commenter:uh player a player b blind resume ready for it uh player a 80 games through their first 80 games win-loss 42-38, 62.1 % completion percentage, 20 ,000 yards, 138 passing touchdowns, 100 interceptions, playoff wins and losses, 0-3. Player B, 81 games, 43-38, 62 % completion percentage, exactly the same, 21 ,000 passing yards, 142 passing TDs, 45 interceptions, 0-2 in playoffs, wins and losses. That's Peyton Manning, Justin Herbert. Literally, identical yeah now Peyton Manning played in a different era but still

1:08:55Big Cat:well then they had to change the rules so he could win the playoffs yeah but identical

1:08:59PFT Commenter:start to their careers pretty good if you're Justin Herbert yeah okay oh I didn't even realize this you see Colin Coward said that he said I'd make an argument today the greatest coach in the history of football is not Bill Belichick or Bill Walsh or Vince Lombardi it's Jim Harbaugh that is a hell of a take hey get off our fucking corner That was a hell of a take.

1:09:22Big Cat:Let's talk about it. Let's have the conversation. We're having it. Let's have the hard conversation. All right. You got to start out with Super Bowls. So off the top of my head, what are they? Probably tied in Super Bowls if you're having this conversation.

1:09:35PFT Commenter:I don't think you have to start Super Bowls.

1:09:38Big Cat:I think you have to start national championships. How many national championships do they have?

1:09:41PFT Commenter:Bill Belichick, Bill Walsh, or Vince Lombardi have zero.

1:09:44Big Cat:Okay. And then the other guy, I forget, probably has a few of them.

1:09:47PFT Commenter:He has one. Okay. So then he's probably got the Super Bowls. Yeah, but he also making Stanford good at football counts as a Super Bowl. That is actually valid. Yes, I will agree with that. Yeah, I think it's a little early for that. We love Coach Harbaugh. Let's have him win a Super Bowl first.

1:10:02Big Cat:Yeah, he would probably tell you to fuck off.

1:10:03PFT Commenter:Yeah, he'd be like, hey, I want to win a Super Bowl first. Okay, Saints at Seahawks. Spencer Rattler is 0-8 as a starter. Will he get his first win this week?

1:10:16Big Cat:Yes. You think they're going to win? I think they're going to win.

1:10:19PFT Commenter:You think the Saints are going to beat the Seahawks? I like it.

1:10:22Big Cat:I think that they might. Yes.

1:10:24PFT Commenter:I'm going to take the Saints plus seven. I don't know if they're going to win the game.

1:10:27Big Cat:Hungry Dog Hank? Maybe.

1:10:32PFT Commenter:No? Maybe. Okay. I think Beastquake when I win these two teams play in Seattle.

1:10:37Big Cat:For sure. And this would be Spencer's first win? First win. First win as a starter?

1:10:43PFT Commenter:First win as a starter.

1:10:45Big Cat:The Seahawks aren't as great at home as they have been in the past?

1:10:48PFT Commenter:Yeah, I know. It's been weird. You want it in the Sarlay?

1:10:51Big Cat:Yeah, can I put that in there?

1:10:52PFT Commenter:Yeah.

1:10:53Big Cat:Let's go Saints Moneyline. All right.

1:10:56PFT Commenter:I like it. You're a bold man. Who dat? That's a hard conversation.

1:11:00Big Cat:Me dat.

1:11:01PFT Commenter:A hard conversation you're going to have to have with yourself on Monday morning is I put Moneyline on Spencer Ratlou's never won an NFL game. 0-8. That's a hard conversation. I went back.

1:11:10Big Cat:I watched his series on Netflix. He's got some good film out there, too. It's not just him being a dickhead.

1:11:16PFT Commenter:Yeah, the Seahawks have not been as good at home.

1:11:20Big Cat:And they're still like a better team at home than on the road, but it's not like it was in the early 20-teens. The heyday. Yeah, the heyday of it.

1:11:27PFT Commenter:Yeah. Cardinals, 49ers. Cardinals and 49ers. 49ers minus 2.5 over under 45.5. I really like the 49ers in this game. I'm not buying the Cardinals yet.

1:11:38Big Cat:Yeah, they've played some bad teams.

1:11:40PFT Commenter:Well, that and also I cannot, will not, should not bet on a quarterback that took a picture and put on Instagram of him in a Michael Vick jersey with a pit bull.

1:11:51Big Cat:With his dog. He said, I saw how it affected people and decided to take it down. I apologize to anybody and whoever I affected. He apologized to you. Yeah, he did. But yeah, the picture, he said that he wore the Mike Vick jersey earlier in that day. Yeah. Then he went home. He saw his pit bull. Trunks. Trunks. Trunks and swoosh. This is Trunks. Yeah, shout out Trunks. Trunks looks like a very good boy.

1:12:12PFT Commenter:Wild picture to post.

1:12:14Big Cat:Now, in his defense, he's wearing a Virginia Tech Mike Vick jersey, which was before Bad News Kennels. But there might have been other. You think Mike Vick was just in it like long haul? This was what he was doing?

1:12:28PFT Commenter:Maybe. I just know. So this is one of those situations where I'm not like, oh, my God, fuck Kyler Murray. Like, fuck him for life. How could you do that? It's more if your quarterback's making if this is the judgment of your quarterback. That's a bad side.

1:12:42Big Cat:The decision making process.

1:12:43PFT Commenter:The decision-making process is lacking.

1:12:45Big Cat:You know what this tells me? Kyler's been back online gaming. Yeah. Because this is definitely something that you would make a joke to your friends in the Discord chat. Like, hey, you won't take a picture wearing a Mike Victor is in a pit bull. Yeah. And then you go out there and you do it. Yes, I agree. Also, that dog might outweigh Kyler Murray. Trunks. Trunks is a big boy. Trunks. Yeah, it's a Trunks bet.

1:13:07PFT Commenter:Yeah, you just can't bet on the Cardinals after that. You can't. Also, here's a fun fact that I was shocked by. Did you know that Kyle Shanahan is 7-9 straight up versus the Cardinals? His worst record against any team. But I dug into it a little bit more. Kyler Murray is 1-3. Kyler Murray is 4-4 against the 49ers, but he's 1-3 against Robert Salah, being the defensive coordinator on the 49ers. I've read a bunch of stuff. It feels like the 49ers defense got a little of their mojo back with Robert Salah.

1:13:41Big Cat:I think they did. And I also think that the Cardinals defense has lost whatever mojo they were hoping to have because I think they're down three cornerbacks that won't be playing. In solidarity with the Niners who have lost all their receivers, the Cardinals, fair is fair, will take some of our guys out too.

1:13:58PFT Commenter:Yeah. Brock Purdy is practicing, maybe, so he might play, but just roll out Mac Jones again. Brock Purdy is threatening to play this weekend. He's telling everyone, watch out. Okay, last afternoon game, Cowboys at Bears. Bears plus one and a half, over under 50 and a half. The game of the week.

1:14:17Big Cat:See Ben Johnson's comments?

1:14:19PFT Commenter:What do you say?

1:14:19Big Cat:They asked him about the Tom Brady situation. What do you say? He said it's overblown. I don't think it's a big deal at all.

1:14:24PFT Commenter:Okay. But did he also say it was weird?

1:14:26Big Cat:No. They didn't ask him if it was weird. Bruce Arians was on McAfee's show. He said, yeah, that's completely overblown. I used to just tell him the truth because no one believed me anyway. Dan Orlovsky went on ESPN.

1:14:39PFT Commenter:You said it was weird? Nope. But no one's talking about the only thing we're asking is, is it weird?

1:14:45Big Cat:They would have said it was weird. They all said no.

1:14:47PFT Commenter:No, they weren't asked.

1:14:48Big Cat:Your only source right now is Florio. What did Dan say? Dan, I'll read the quote exactly. I'd like to know what Dan said. And also how many interviews Dan Orlovsky's been in as, he's probably talking as a broadcaster.

1:15:00PFT Commenter:I don't think it brings integrity into the equation. I don't think Tom gathering this season, changing information that he's going to be able to acquire to bring back to the Raiders.

1:15:09Big Cat:That's going to help them win the game. Okay. So essentially not weird is the translation of that. I think I stand by my take that it's weird.

1:15:19PFT Commenter:We don't know if it's weird or not.

1:15:21Big Cat:Are you worried, Big Cat, about the Matt Ibrafluous revenge game?

1:15:25PFT Commenter:Slightly. Let's have a hard conversation. I've crunched the numbers. this is a gateway game if the bears win this game and i'm not saying that the bears are going to win this game because jalen johnson is out for a very long time uh we don't have any cornerbacks or the ones we have are not great the defense has been just absolutely lit up cowboys have a really good offense it's going to be a tough one game to win but it's a gateway game and by that i mean And if the Bears win this game, don't be shocked if the Bears are 5-4 or 6-3. Okay. But they have to win this game. But wait, if they don't win this game, couldn't they still be 5-4?

1:16:13PFT Commenter:No, no, season's over. It's a gateway game. This is the gateway.

1:16:16Big Cat:I think it might be a gateway game for your feelings about Caleb Williams as a quarterback.

1:16:21PFT Commenter:I'm talking about the Bears' season. Because if they go 0-3, it's going to be just full, like, Caleb's got to look good. I'm talking about the Bears' season as it stands. If they win this game, we are now going through the portal, and then I'm going to snap my fingers, and you can even make this edit. Snap my fingers. Holy shit, the Bears are 5-4? Bears are 6-3? 6-3. How the fuck did that happen?

1:16:44Big Cat:So 6-3 would be special because that would literally mean that you are above a 6 out of 10. That would mean that you're a 6 out of 9, which is more excited than you were.

1:16:52PFT Commenter:Just saying. They got to win this game, though. If they don't win this game, none of this matters. They're 0-3, and they just suck. And that's very much on the table.

1:17:00Big Cat:You do a snap of the fingers, they lose this game, and where they're at after 9?

1:17:06PFT Commenter:0-9.

1:17:07Big Cat:Remember when we went through the schedule on Monday, and you were like, I think it was loss, loss, loss, loss. Yeah.

1:17:16PFT Commenter:I don't know if you know this about me, but what did Coach O say? like competition Tuesday, get better, tell the truth Wednesday or whatever. But Thursday, every week, I'm back.

1:17:26Big Cat:Isn't Thursday no repeat? So Big Cat's literally not repeating his take from earlier this week.

1:17:31PFT Commenter:No, someone pointed that out when I tweeted that it's a gateway game. They're like, dude, you said on Monday, how is it possible? I'm like, it's Thursday now, buddy. We're ready to go. Again, they probably will lose this game. So I'm not saying they're going to win this game. I'm just saying don't let them win this game because when they win this game or if they win this game, we're thinking five and four.

1:17:53Big Cat:So after they win this game, then you have the Raiders. Win. If they win this game. Yeah, then you go to the Commanders.

1:18:01PFT Commenter:That's probably a loss, but if they're on a two-game win streak, they might just be good.

1:18:07Big Cat:They might just rip another one off. Then they have the Saints at home. Win. Then they go to the Ravens.

1:18:12PFT Commenter:If this is a four-game win streak, they might just be really good.

1:18:15Big Cat:And then they go to the Bengals.

1:18:17PFT Commenter:Jake Browning and the Bengals. Yeah. And then the Giants. The schedule gets easier. I'm just saying. Watch out. But again, when we snap my fingers Sunday night and they got blown out by the Cowboys, season's over. It's a gateway game.

1:18:33Big Cat:I love a good gateway game. If there's one thing that Matt Ibraflus is really good at, he's figuring out ways for the Bears to lose football games. Yeah. That's what I would be concerned about.

1:18:42PFT Commenter:Yeah. I do like that Ben Johnson basically called out everyone. and a lot of it feels people think it might be DJ Moore, but this feels like a gut check point for the Bears season. It's a gateway game.

1:18:56Big Cat:I'm actively monitoring Ben Johnson and how well he's able to do coach speak in his first season as a head coach. I think he's done really well in the coach speak department. They asked him about last week, and for the most part, he was like, I did a really, really bad job. Everything's on me.

1:19:12PFT Commenter:He's extremely honest, which I love. he's he's saying it how it is and like you wouldn't think a new coach would call out his team like that being like we're not even close to like a a good football team we're gonna have to compete more in practice we're gonna have to ramp it up like i like that culture change yeah

1:19:29Big Cat:um with a little cleanup on the brandon aubrey conversation from earlier this week i actually heard from an nfl gm okay about our debate yeah he said he would go in the first two rounds You said first round. He said first two rounds. You said first round. This guy said first two rounds. But that's changing the debate. And a team could fall in love with him.

1:19:49PFT Commenter:But that's changing the debate. It's pretty close, though. Well, if you said first two rounds, it might be different. Okay. But first round, there's just no way. Okay. Because, like, you know what the Cowboys-Giants game? You're like, oh, the Cowboys have Brandon Aubrey. He's incredible. He won that game. Do you know what would have won that game? if the Cowboys had a lockdown corner. Right. Probably more important because he plays in every snap on defense.

1:20:15Big Cat:Was Jerry Jones actually galaxy brain when he traded Micah Parsons? Because if Micah Parsons was in on that play in overtime, he'd probably sack Russell Wilson instead of Russell Wilson throwing that interception. Maybe it was. Yeah. Think about it.

1:20:28PFT Commenter:Yeah, listen, Brandon Aubrey, I talked to Todd McShay, he said probably maybe second, probably third, which that's fine because he is very, very good. But I still think if you did a redraft for the entire league, you draft offensive and defensive linemen first, not Brandon Aubrey. Build the whole thing around a kicker.

1:20:45Big Cat:All it takes is one.

1:20:47PFT Commenter:Also, shout out to Steelers fans who are getting upset because they said that Chris Boswell, and I do – Chris Boswell does have to kick outside. Brandon Aubrey does not. That's a big difference. All right, Chiefs at Giants Sunday Night Football, Giants plus six over under 45 and a half. I want to do a – you guys ready for read an AI headline because sports writing is going away and now we just have ai articles i've gotten addicted to

1:21:10Big Cat:looking at the different like overseas facebook groups for different teams that just make up stories entirely about them those are very fun to watch all right here it is uh it's from nidhi

1:21:21PFT Commenter:uh i think he's indian patrick mahomes sets sights on giants 11 and 4 record amid chiefs

1:21:28Big Cat:three game losing streak yeah that's that's one of those headlines yeah overseas like like india Chiefs fans.

1:21:35PFT Commenter:Yeah, Giants are 11-4 all-time against the Chiefs. So that's what Patrick Mahomes is using his motivation for this week.

1:21:41Big Cat:Yeah, he's pissed off.

1:21:42PFT Commenter:He's pissed off that like 40 years ago the Giants beat the Chiefs a bunch.

1:21:45Big Cat:He's really upset. He's fighting for the entire honor of the Kansas City area.

1:21:49PFT Commenter:Yeah. I kind of like the Giants in this game. No? I don't think the Chiefs are going to win six points. I don't think the Chiefs can blow anyone out right now.

1:21:59Big Cat:Mahomes doesn't lose on Sunday Night Football. he just doesn't my homes can you envision that like if you i know i can't if you do a little uh just like a little look into the future if you try to remote view it and you think about it use your imagination can you imagine patrick mahomes losing in metlife stadium no on sunday night with chris collinsworth being like well none of us saw this coming tonight out but could you also imagine

1:22:24PFT Commenter:could you also imagine the chiefs being up 20 to 16 in the fourth quarter and then just running Like Mahomes, it's four minutes left, and if the Chiefs get a first down, the game's over, and Mahomes runs, scrambles for eight yards, and then ends the game.

1:22:38Big Cat:Yeah, I could see that.

1:22:40PFT Commenter:Yeah, I could see that too.

1:22:41Big Cat:The Giants might get Andrew Thomas back, which would be huge.

1:22:44PFT Commenter:That would be enormous. Maybe Jackson Dart Package.

1:22:47Big Cat:Maybe we see the, yeah, the Dart Attack.

1:22:49PFT Commenter:Dart Attack.

1:22:50Big Cat:Maybe more Scadaboo. Ooh, Scadaboo. Scadaboo.

1:22:54PFT Commenter:Busy, busy. Scadaboo. Scadaboo. All right. we were so close to our parlay that's my fault jordan mason i didn't score i'll say this for everyone who wrote our parlay with us uh the silver lining is no touchdowns in the game period made it feel a little bit better yeah like if everyone else had scored except jordan mason i would have been very upset they just didn't score a touchdown yeah but field goal draft kings uh the nfl's back and draft king sportsbook an official sports betting partner of the nfl every play is a shot for you to win big even if a play doesn't go your way no sweat draft kings dishing out nfl no sweat touchdown bets for all customers this week opt in get your no sweat token and place an nfl touchdown bet if your touchdown bet doesn't hit you'll get it back as a bonus bet download the draft king sportsbook app use code take that's code take and claim your no sweat touchdown bet token in partnership with draft kings crown is yours gambling problem call 1-800 gambler uh max do you want to fill in for me because i lost uh sure okay afternoon games what

1:23:53Big Cat:do you guys got hmm hank i'm two and oh uh also top of the leaderboard on on picks for the guy that doesn't care about football um oh okay busy busy scataboo scataboo okay all right I will go with Ricky Pearsall. Wow.

1:24:25PFT Commenter:Okay, like it. I mean, what?

1:24:28Big Cat:Should I take a chalkier pick?

1:24:34Big Cat:Now I'm stuck. Just go with your heart. What do you got? Well, for the Sarlay, the Sarlay for this week is Saints money line, Bill, anytime touchdown score. Okay, I love that. Packers money line, plus 830. Okay. No, I'll stick with Busy Busy.

1:24:53PFT Commenter:All right, Skadaboo. All right, what do you got?

1:24:55Big Cat:I am going to take Roma Dunze.

1:25:00PFT Commenter:Oh, I like it.

1:25:01Big Cat:I think there's going to be a lot of points in that game.

1:25:03PFT Commenter:Okay, that's got to be a juicy one. So Rome, Scadabo, and what was yours? I had Ricky Pearsall. Ricky Pearsall. Yeah. So go bet that on the DraftKings sportsbook. Ride with us. That'll be a fun one. What are the odds right now?

1:25:20Big Cat:It's got to be juicy. I don't know. I can't find Ricky Pearsall.

1:25:23PFT Commenter:He's on the 49ers. I know that. No, it sounds like you don't know that. I know that he's on the 49ers. No, he's not listed right now. Yeah, he's not listed.

1:25:31Big Cat:He's not listed right now. Okay, then can I change mine then? Yeah. I got to change it if he's not up there. Well, there's only four players. I don't know why that is right now.

1:25:41PFT Commenter:Is he not playing? No, he probably is.

1:25:43Big Cat:He probably will be, but...

1:25:44PFT Commenter:Maybe they're waiting to hear about Purdy.

1:25:48Big Cat:That could make sense. Okay, then I'll go with... I'm going to go with JSN.

1:25:57PFT Commenter:Okay. All right, so bet that with us on the DraftKings Sportsbook. Let's finish with our picks, and then we have Jerry O 'Connell's fantasy minutes. What is that? What does it pay? Max is struggling. You okay, Max? Max, you okay?

1:26:15Big Cat:You took JSN? Yeah. Max is aging.

1:26:18PFT Commenter:He plays for the Seahawks. He plays for the Seahawks, not the Ravens. He's a wide receiver. Yeah. There it is. Found it. He was just searching.

1:26:30Big Cat:Then you got to click. I couldn't. Spelling is hard. Juicy, juicy, juicy, juicy. Max might need a new mouse. He might need one with wider buttons.

1:26:39PFT Commenter:All right.

1:26:41Big Cat:It's just one button. It's a hard conversation. It's a hard conversation. Did they make those like a computer mouse for fat guys?

1:26:46PFT Commenter:I don't know. I remember when my grandmother, before she died, she lived with us, and we had to get the phone with the huge fucking numbers. I love using those phones. Yeah. You can't miss.

1:26:57Big Cat:You need to lose your seat to get on that desk. Luxurious. I wasn't saying, Max, I said for fat people, The thing about you is a joke. I'm 5 '9". Rather than short.

1:27:07PFT Commenter:You can always lose weight, Max. You've got to end with that.

1:27:09Big Cat:I could always move to a different country where everybody's shorter than here.

1:27:14PFT Commenter:Nepal. Yeah. Pardon my take from Nepal. All right. Let's do our picks, and then we have Jerry's Fantasy Minute. Who is up first? Is it Zach?

1:27:22Big Cat:Max is up first.

1:27:23PFT Commenter:Okay, Max. I'm up first.

1:27:25Big Cat:I'm going to take Bears-Cowboys over 50 and a half.

1:27:28PFT Commenter:Yeah. You knew that was going to go. You knew that was going to go. By the way, the standings are, you have four?

1:27:36Big Cat:No, it's three, three. Me and Hank have three. Big Cat Zach, two. Max, one. PFT, zero. Jax last week was such a bullshit. 0 for four. Not the way you want to start a season. 0 for four. 0 for four. Yeah. I don't think I've ever hit a total in the past two years. So. That's okay. Are you talking about the cereal? Okay, Frank the Tank.

1:27:56PFT Commenter:Yeah, Frank the Tank. Early Fleming here.

1:27:58Big Cat:Total. Total's probably healthier.

1:27:59PFT Commenter:Another motherfucking total.

1:28:01Big Cat:That's why you wouldn't have hit it, Max. Oh, God. Okay.

1:28:08PFT Commenter:Max, over in the Cowboys-Bears. Yeah, over. I think it's over 50 and a half. Zach. Zach.

1:28:14Big Cat:I would like to take the over 44 and a half in the Rams-Eagles game. Oh, interesting. I'm taking the under in that game.

1:28:21PFT Commenter:Okay. I'm going to take the New York Jets plus seven. That's a great pick. Is it?

1:28:31Big Cat:I will be taking the Rams plus three and a half against the Eagles.

1:28:36PFT Commenter:And? Oh, no.

1:28:38Big Cat:Connor. I will be taking the Steelers-Patriots over 44 and a half.

1:28:47PFT Commenter:Ah, he got you on that one. He got you on that one.

1:28:51Big Cat:I will be taking the under in the Steelers-Patriots. No, I can't do that. I get another pick. You can still take that, though. I'll take Chargers minus 2.5. I will take the under and the Raiders Commanders 44.5.

1:29:10PFT Commenter:Oh, I like that. I'll take the under and Giants Chiefs 45.5.

1:29:18Big Cat:I'm going to go Monday night. Okay. Whoa. I'm going to take the Lions plus 4.5. Hmm. Hmm. Yeah. I went there I would like to take in the Titans Colts game The Colts at minus four and a half Okay I would like to take the Chiefs minus six

1:29:43PFT Commenter:Wow Bold Alright those are our picks Are we ready for Our Jerry I'm ready Jerry Jerry Jerry So we don't watch these PFT and I do not watch these beforehand When he sends it to us so we have no idea we're watching here for the first time with everyone else here we go all right here we go all right memes just put some like techno music on this okay whatever you you don't have to pay for it here we go i got one minute and here we go um yeah hey what's up welcome to fantasy fuck boys yeah look at us chest and buys every day chest and buys chest and buys Guys, what are we doing? Week three, Zach Ertz.

1:30:24You got to pick up Zach Ertz. Sick tight end. He's playing Vegas. Their defense sucks. Zach Ertz. Also, that other tight end, Jawan Johnson out of New Orleans.

1:30:34PFT Commenter:He's had like 16 points the last two weeks. You got to pick him up, Jawan Johnson. What else? Everybody else should drop Caleb Johnson. He's the worst, just like you let that ball drop. And you should pick up Najee Harris out of Los Angeles. His eye is all better Fastest healing part of the party A lot of people don't know that What else we got? Oh, this is really weird But you've got to stream Caleb Williams Because the Dallas D sucks And also Mac Jones I did it under a minute Fuck you, big cat Fuck you

1:31:08Big Cat:That was good

1:31:09PFT Commenter:How's our fantasy team doing?

1:31:11Big Cat:I think we're 2-0 Wasn't that the point of Jerry just has taken over the fantasy fuckboys Yeah, no, I love it though But I want to know what's going on with the fantasy. I wish he was giving us a little update of the league. Yeah, yeah, I can pull it up right now. I'm pretty sure we're 2-0. It's tough to tell because Jerry dominates the group chat regardless of if we win or if we lose. It's not going to stop him from just dropping the most random shit in there. Let's see, Jerry's kids, 2-0, and we're in second place in the league right now. So, yeah, Jerry, he knows what he's doing. And they upped the buy-in this year, too.

1:31:45Big Cat:Jerry went out and got more permission from his wife to spend money. which is very nice for her to let him do that. So, yeah, 2-0. Love it. Love it. Okay, let's get - Is the eye actually the fastest healing part of the body? I don't know.

1:31:56PFT Commenter:It sounded right. Yeah, it sounded right to me. All right, let's get to our interview with Fred Smoot. Okay, before we get to Fred Smoot, Twisted Tea. Twisted Tea, new sponsor, is a refreshing hard ice tea made with real brewed tea and 5 % alcohol. Twisted Tea is the perfect alcohol beverage to keep the good times going all season long, whether you're hanging out at a friend's house, Catching a game at the stadium or at the bar or just seeing where the day takes you, Twisted Tea is there to turn your day up a notch and make a good time a great time. Keep it twisted with Twisted Tea. I love the original.

1:32:33PFT Commenter:I love the big boy cans. I love the peach. There's so many good flavors with Twisted Tea, and it is such a refreshing drink. So grab a tea. It's game time. Stock up on ice cold Twisted Tea today and send us a pick. Send us a pic of you enjoying a twisted tea, whether it be in your backyard, your living room, a game, wherever it may be. Send us that twisted tea. Grab a tea. It's game time. Stock up on ice cold twisted tea today. Okay, here he is, Fred Smoot. Okay, we now welcome on a very special guest. He is our colleague, our friend. It is Fred Smoot in studio. Fred? Yeah. It's great to see you.

1:33:14PFT Commenter:Always good to see you, brother. It's great to talk. Should we – where do you want to start? You want to start with Jaden Daniels? Are you nervous about his knee? We can start there. Let's go and get the elephant out the room. Yep. Anytime you got a franchise quarterback, there's a chance he could be hurt. Any friend base is feeling it, all right, because it's this big if in the room. It's this big cloud over there. It's like if he doesn't play. Luckily, luckily, it's 2025 and we went cloned him. All right. Not only do we have a starring quarterback that's the number two pick and the ex-Heisman Trophy winner and the ex-NFL Rookie of the Year, so is our number two quarterback.

1:33:52They have the same DNA. And the one thing we can say is when he had to play last year, Mariota, he came through and he showed up and he played. So as much as I'm worried, I know we got a gatekeeper. And when you got a gatekeeper, you got a chance.

1:34:07Big Cat:I agree with that because Mariota against the Cowboys last year, Mariota against the Titans. When he came in, he was really, really good. So in terms of backup quarterbacks, I like where we're at. I am – I'll just say it. I'm nervous. I'm nervous because every time I watch Jaden get hit, and I think he's led the league. I think he's been hit the most. Yeah. When you talk about running plays and tackles that he's taken, sacks he's taken, and quarterback pressures where he's ended up on the ground, I think he's been the most hit quarterback in the NFL since he got into the league. And every time I see it, I do – You cringe.

1:34:40Big Cat:I cringe. I get flashbacks. And when I see a sprained knee on a quarterback and I see him playing at FedEx Field, I don't like where that's taking me. Listen, I'm your counselor. Yeah, please help me. I'm diagnosing you now with RG3 PTSD. Well, I call it post-traumatic Snyder disorder. Yeah, you have it. All right? And there's nothing wrong with that, but it's a cure for that. And they just let the football gods do what they may because you can't stop them anyway. We're going to get hurt. We're going to get injured. You're playing the most physical game. We just happen to have a quarterback that wildly makes a lot of plays with his legs.

1:35:19So, therefore, there's going to be some times where he's going to get hurt. We understand that. But that's why your cake is layered. And when you've got a three-layer layer cake, you can eat the top layer before you eat the second. Everything will be okay. They taste the same. Mariota layer tastes just as good as the Jaden layer for a short time. Josh Jacobs I mean Josh Johnson if he needs to get in there that's a good layer too that's a good layer that's a good layer

1:35:45Big Cat:if we get to the Sam Hartman layer now we in trouble

1:35:50PFT Commenter:now you're out of cake I like this analogy is just like hey it's like eating cake now you feel better

1:35:55Big Cat:yeah I do I mean work for Marie Antoinette I think that it's going to be it's going to be hopefully Mariota this weekend I don't think so you went you went let's not rush this it's early in the year I don't want to rush it And Jaden's going to want to play. Yes, he does. Dan Quinn has said, I need to see him practicing with the team fully in order for him to play with the team. I would feel more comfortable. And it's not like I'm underestimating the Raiders. I think that the Raiders, they did look bad on Monday Night Football. They looked good week one. And they've got, you know, they pay those guys to play football too.

1:36:26Big Cat:Yeah. In Las Vegas. And I think that if we want to keep him away from Max Crosby for a week, let him heal up to the point. I don't know. It's probably a grade one sprain on his knee. We don't know. There you go guessing. Yeah. Power father, don't you do that. What you need to do is take what you do know because we don't know anything. They didn't say it was a bruise. They didn't say it was a sprain. They didn't say it was anything because I know what play had happened. The play that he was running away from Parsons, and when he turned up the field, he looked, and then the guy cut him low. So that could be anything, all right?

1:36:59But what I'm saying is I'm with you on not rushing him, but if he has the ability to play, why not play? because one thing I know about Coach Quinn, if he can't protect himself, Coach ain't putting him out there. So that's the big thing. This is a franchise quarterback. This is not a novelty. This is not, let's throw Spencer Rattler out there, let's survive until we get Archie Manning and look the same. No, we're not doing that. We got a franchise quarterback. We know how to take care of him.

1:37:27Big Cat:Okay. All right. Well, if he plays on Sunday, I'm going to be excited to watch him play. I'm also going to be on edge. You're going to be on edge the whole time. You know damn well that field, the FedEx field. It's not what it used to be. It's got a body count. No, no. This is what I can say. New ownership, they have reinforced, redone that field. We got one of the best grass fields in the league right now. All right? So we can't just because our girl used to treat us like this. She's treating us better now. Well, no, it's a new girl. No, no. We went to counseling. We went to counseling. She took heed to what they said.

1:37:59And now she's actually cooking food. Now she's actually looking out to your boy. The longest change happening, I'm never going to knock that change and look back in the past and say this is how it used to be. Okay. We've all changed.

1:38:11Big Cat:Yeah, we've changed. We've become better people. Yes, we did. And so we're in a happier place right now. Okay, I'm going to take that to heart and from your mouth to God's ears. I hope you're right. I hope it happens, man, because we lost a lot of guys the other day. We lost Eckler. We lost Deetre Wise. But we signed Preston Smith. We moved Chris Rodriguez up. So we got some things in motion. Gotcha. Fred, I got a question for you about defense. Yeah. I was watching Monday Night Football, and I watched until the very end. I know it was late on the East Coast of the second game, the Chargers and the Raiders.

1:38:44Big Cat:And I walked away from that game thinking that we should be talking more about Derwin James. First of all, where have you been the last four years? I love watching him play. I do. But the way that he was playing, I feel like he should be in that conversation for... Defensive player of the year. Yes, exactly. Most definitely. He has that type caliber. He can cover to the tee. He's an A-plus in coverage. He's an A-plus in physicality. He loves to play the run. He's an A-plus in intensity. He's an A-plus in leadership. He just never had a coach to help him lead the team to where they need to be at.

1:39:16Now he has the coach that matches everything that he's about. Darwin James, now that they'll start to play playoff games, now that they'll start to play more Monday night games, more premier games, people will get more love to Doran James because he's an East Coast guy Southern guy from Florida State but sometimes you can get caught in purgatory over there in the West and everybody forget about you.

1:39:40Big Cat:There's something about a safety like that that can just wreck a game that can wreck a game. It's so fun to watch. Because it ain't too many of them. We usually have four or five of them, maybe six a year that can change a game not so much this year but he is the one he is legitimately the one and now He's going to have a little bit more on his plate with Khalil Mack coming up missed.

1:40:00PFT Commenter:Yeah. Yeah. All right. So we're two weeks into the season. I wanted to ask you this. 0-2 feels like death over. It feels like death. Yeah. You've been on an 0-2 team before. What's the vibe? My rookie year, Morty Schottenheimer, we started off with 0-6. Something like that. Yeah. I was like, I'm never going to win a game in my life. Yeah. Does it feel like that? It feels like that. It feels like you're lost. Your locker room is lost. Your fan base is like question marks, like WFT. They're like, what is going on? But you have to just get the first one. That's the thing about it. Put four quarters together and just get the first one.

1:40:40We don't care, hail the hot water. We don't care if the score is 3-0. Get the first win. Get it under your belt so you don't have to think about that no more. And it's a lot of franchises. It's a lot of fan bases waking up this Sunday coming up. Like, if we lose this game, it's over with. But I asked you, El Capitan, what's the difference in 0-2 and 0-3?

1:41:01PFT Commenter:0-3 does feel way worse. I don't know. 1-2. Yeah. They're the same thing. I know. But listen, like, you know, it's just you go through the whole offseason. You go through training camp. You're like, all right, this year, let's get out on the right foot. Promise. 0-2, it just feels. And I know it's stupid to say this because it is a long season. There's going to be a weird shit that happens. Like, even when you look at the schedule, the one thing, we always get excited in the spring because we look at the schedule. And we don't know nothing. Joe Burrow's out now. Changed everything. Everyone who had the Bengals on their schedule thought, oh, that's going to be a tough game.

1:41:35PFT Commenter:Maybe it's not as tough. Yes. Do you think, though, like, is there – like, how early is too early for, like, a players-only meeting? I saw the Dolphins did that after week one. Once they did it after week one. First of all, they should have did a players-only meeting this summer. Yeah. That's when they should have been doing a players-only meeting. Like, because you could tell that that apple was riding time it hit the ground. Yeah. Like, it ain't like, think about it. Your quarterback tour just admitted I'm half of another man. He did. He said that. It was crazy. He was like, hey, you 6 '5", I'm 5 '10".

1:42:06You can make all the throws. I can't. You can run. I crawled. I was like, did you just bow down to this dude? Yeah. Like, then you got Mac McDaniels gets up there, loses everybody with what he's saying. And then you got Tyreek Hill, and then you got this going on. It just feels like that house is just falling apart. Yeah. So if you're Miami Dolphins fans, we're going to pray for you right now. Not laugh at you. We're going to pray for you because it's bad there right now. But it's a couple of more teams out here that feel like we got our locker room in order, and we're still 0-2. Right. But that's the business of football right now.

1:42:41Nobody in America thought the Kansas City Chiefs, Andy Reid, and Patrick Mahomes, the dynasty, was going to be 0-2. Right. You know how much money I could have won in Vegas if I would have put that down? Kansas City 0-2. Right.

1:42:55Big Cat:Well, I mean, if you're talking about Mike McDaniel, I think he was right about something that he said when he said to win games, you have to win the game and not lose the game. And that is how you lose the game. Well, why is he coaching to lose the game? Well, he's not. First, you have to not lose if you want to win. Well, first of all, you have to make your playbook grow and mature if you don't want to lose. You can't be running the same plays that you were running three years ago. Two years ago, three years ago, they had the most explosive offense in football. Great running game too. Great running game and they went vertical.

1:43:26They're not going vertical and they do not run the ball. They're running the same plays because they're stagnant. That means we've studied them. We know them. We know what motion you're going to do. Are you going to layer on your playbook? Are you going to add to your playbook? Or you just think you're going to keep running the same thing? Because that's what they're doing right now. They're running the same tired plays and they're not working.

1:43:44Big Cat:When a team is struggling like the Dolphins have and this is going to come out on Friday so I mean maybe the Dolphins shocked the world and they beat the Bills on Thursday we don't know yet um but if you're if you're in a team situation that's like that where it feels like your coach is pre-fired like everybody knows that he's on the hot seat yeah I've had that situation what happens differently between the players you go into survival mode all right everybody in the building goes into survival mode regardless of this being truly the most team-oriented sports game in the world. This is the most team.

1:44:18We're still independent contractors. And when you know it's a chance that your coach finna take a nosedive, it's every man for himself. It's like jumping overboard. They like let the kids and the children go first. I got to go too. Everyone up their own eyes. So it's one of the things like I can't put no bad film out there because I don't even know who my next coach going to be. So people go into survival mode And that actually pushes you down that rabbit hole Even more of losing Because now you ain't playing as a group no more Everybody just planning to survive another year

1:44:51Big Cat:You were And still are a great shit talker Love hearing you talk shit I'd say C.D. Deuce is probably up there for The most prolific current shit talker in the NFL right now C.D. Lamb, that's one of your favorites? Well C.D. Deuce, C.J. Gardner Johnson You know what, he's more vindictive than I was. Meaner? Yeah, I was more of a laugher while talking trash. Me and Chad more of a cheerful, happy trash talker. He's more demeaning in his trash talk. There was a moment in the Monday Night Football game against the Bucs where he said something to Baker and seemed to wake Baker up by talking shit to him.

1:45:27If I love any quarterback, because Phillip River used to be very much like Baker. Baker, Baker the touchdown maker. If you throw turds at him, he'll throw turds back. And I love that about him. He has an edge to him. And he's always been better as underdog Baker. Not overdog Baker. Underdog Baker is a dude. He a dude that I take to a back alley with me. He a dude that I take to Hooters. Let's have some drinks Baker. That's who he is. And yeah, he did push a button with Baker. And when you do that with a quarterback like that, the team kind of depost of the emotion is from him. That's what happens.

1:46:07Big Cat:Were there any guys that you would not talk shit to because you knew that they would become like— A switch would happen. Yeah, a switch would happen. I used to itch at Jerome Bettis sometime. And then he ran me over one play, and he wouldn't let me hit the ground. He's running me over, so I'm just trying to get to the ground as soon as possible. And he's lifting me back up, running me over again and again. And I'm like, why did I even talk to this dude? And then I'm trying to tackle him. And his body's so bad that I can't, it's nothing I can grab onto. I'm trying to grab his back, but his back's everywhere.

1:46:43I'm trying, like, I didn't know what to do. Like, I have never felt so helpless in my life.

1:46:48PFT Commenter:Yeah. Fred, I think I know the answer to this, but I just want to hear you talk about it. What's your favorite part about the fall? Is it football or pumpkin spice drinks? Now you know. I got a vendetta against everything pumpkin. Yeah, I know you do. Everything. Everything pumpkin. All right, let me ask you something. Huh? I know you said, honey, I'm going to the grocery store. Do you need anything? How many times have your wife said, you know what, since you're out, bring me back pumpkin. She's never said that. Because the number one rule we talk as children is don't play with your food. Don't play with your food.

1:47:26But a pumpkin, they give you a pumpkin, first thing you do is carve a face in it. Not eat it. Not make a, none of that. You carve a face in it, you set it on the front porch. That's it. November come, you do it again. So for two months, pumpkins get to dominate. But we act like we actually like pumpkin. I like pumpkin pie. You don't like pumpkin pie? Ain't no such thing as pumpkin pie. What does that mean? There's no such... Sweet potato pie. It's great, yeah. All right. So now pumpkin has one dish that is made for us. So you tell me you're going to take all that water, all that land, and grow all these pumpkins to make pumpkin pie.

1:48:05Like, it's so bad in the animal world, the only person that eats pumpkin, the only animal, is the hippopotamus. That's not true.

1:48:11Big Cat:What else? Squirrels. Squirrels eat pumpkins. I put two pumpkins out of my porch last year. Within like three days, there's a perfect circle hole in each pumpkin. And the squirrels burrowed in. The squirrels got fat as shit. Hey, PFT, let me tell you, Sue. You know, also, the squirrels in California are not carnivores, right? They're starting to eat each other. Are you serious? They're starting to eat meat. That's terrifying. So, yeah. They'll eat anything. They're like, it's only two things left we can eat. There's pumpkin in each other. No, it's the worst thing. Like, I'm going to tell you what really does it for me at this time of year.

1:48:45When I got to see it everywhere. Yeah. When I go get my coffee. Yeah. I got pumpkin latte. I'm like, well, why you ain't got it the other months? Because we don't want it. All right? I walk anywhere. I got pumpkin fragrance. Why I want to walk around smelling like a pumpkin? Why do I want my house smelling like a pumpkin? Like I'm inviting my boys. Come on, man. Y 'all smell all that pumpkin in here? Nobody does that. There's nothing cool about pumpkin. But nobody would say it. Because Americans are scared to say such stuff that we know the truth of. And the truth of, we don't like pumpkins. We don't like to do a lot of stuff that we're just forced to do as human beings.

1:49:20But we don't step up and say it. Like I had to tell somebody, you don't know you don't like that pumpkin. You know you don't like it. You're just trying to follow along. You're being seasonal. Enough pumpkin. Get it out. No, I want it through. Yeah. I don't want it grow on American soil anymore. Like, don't waste the water. Don't waste the soil. No, we could be growing something that we actually like to eat. Yeah.

1:49:44Big Cat:I like sweet potato pie a lot. I do enjoy pumpkin pie. But you're right. You don't put pumpkin in any other dish. So basically, it makes it useless. Yeah. Hippopotamuses and squirrels. Why are we following them? That's what I'm telling you. Crazy. All I'm saying is, I talked to a deer the other day. He said he don't eat like pumpkin.

1:50:06Big Cat:Fred, I got another question for you about defensive backs. Do you love it when there's like an overthrow by six or seven yards and the quarterback just misses a guy and you get to celebrate in the dude's face? And we was beat too, secretly. And you were beat, yeah, put the seatbelt on him. You know what? That's called a defensive backs love kiss. Okay. That means we kissed by the football gods. We didn't do everything right. The receivers beat us. But somewhere or another, that quarterback just launched it, and he launched it 40 yards too far. And you see us don't hesitate. We talking trash like it was lockdown coverage.

1:50:43Because to us, when we fall short on them other ones, we don't get that love. No, you hear about it. Yeah, thank you. Think about this. I can shut down Randy Moss for four quarters. If he beats me to win the game, I am trash. I'm the worst cornerback to ever play the game. Well, that's that love-hate relationship we have. So when we get those DB's kisses, and the football guy throwing a kiss at us, I kiss back. You know what I'm saying? That's what I do. I kiss back and I blow that kiss up because you never know which one of those could save your career. At least let you play a couple more years.

1:51:18Because on my sheet, that goes as a plus.

1:51:21Big Cat:Not as a minus. And people forget about it after like two plays. You forget entirely that you got beat. But they'll never forget that you let Steve Smith catch that comeback right on you. And I'm like, come on, dude. Have you tried to check him? Right. I get it. It makes sense. Showing love back to people that showed love to you. Yeah. And the football guys will shine on you sometimes. That's the thing about sports. Any given day could be your day. And that's what you got to feel, especially in the NFL, because every day won't be your day. But if I'm checking Plex today and I know I got to check Plex five weeks from now, I know I need to get out here.

1:51:59I need to start making these plays and I need to start making them early because everyone that he makes on me counts against me.

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1:53:15PFT Commenter:Okay, so would you, if you were playing in today's day and age, would you be a seatbelt guy? Would you do the seatbelt celebration? No, I'd be more about the bow and arrow. The bow and arrow? The bow and arrow, not really a seatbelt, because I don't want the receiver to feel safe. Right. Yeah, that's true. That's a good point. You know what I'm saying? So maybe I would have did something like a jail cell where I would have just locked the jail cell up on him or something and put a tray of food in there. Like, I would have did something else. Yeah. Like, you know what? And I'm trying. They'll just tell you how my focus is.

1:53:50I'm looking over Big Cat's shoulder. And when we were just talking, all I could see was Mike Dickers. Monster sausage. And it just threw me off. Monster sausage. Yeah, it just threw me off. It just threw me off.

1:54:03Big Cat:Because if you were trying to plan a celebration, you'd have to also remember what celebration we're going to do in the moment. I feel like you were an emotional guy. You wouldn't always, like, think about something that you had prepared. No, no, you'll prepare stuff during the week. Yeah. And you'll say, all right, this is for the biggest play. Okay. This is for a breakup because of this guy. Maybe it's something that signals to him and only he can pick up on it. Yeah. Like Chad Johnson. Chad loved Riverdance. There was this thing. He going to do something. So my thing with him was I would always do something like Flavor Flay with him where I would start dancing and I would take my pants off, like take my pants off or something like that.

1:54:41So it's about the player who you're going against, too. Like, some guys are quiet. Checking to Reggie Wayne for four quarters. He's just going to keep beating you. He ain't going to dance. He ain't going to do nothing. He's just going to keep laying it on you. And that silence can get deafening. It can hurt you.

1:54:55Big Cat:What about if you had a celebration planned? Because this happens a lot. And let's say you got one for a pick, right? You get an interception. Here's what I'm going to do. And then all of a sudden, all your teammates come over to you right after the interception. And you can't do it. And you're telling them, like, hey, get away. I've got my celebration going. They know it. When you make the play and you do this. everybody just stops because they know he got something playing. Let him go. So this is how you tell Liam, stop. Give me a second. I'm going to go straight. Cam, bind him on him. Right now he's the best in the game.

1:55:25Safety for the Colts. That used to be the safety for the Vikings last year. He has the best celebrations in football right now.

1:55:33PFT Commenter:Against the Broncos. We've had this discussion on the podcast. Is it unfair for you, a Commanders fan to be thinking Soupy this year. No, we're thinking Super Bowl. It's been generations since we could think Super Bowl, and just to be in that window to think Super Bowl is a privilege. Congratulations to the team, by the way. We're moving back to the nation's capital. It has been announced. We will have the$3 billion playpen put into the nation's capital. Will it be a dome or outdoor? It will be enclosed. Are you Are you proponent of that? Because it feels like we're on the way to just having every single stadium.

1:56:11I think now, because these are billionaires that like to make money, and when football season's not going around, they still want to generate money from these stadiums. And the only way to do it is to control Mother Nature. Yeah.

1:56:23PFT Commenter:I know. It's just sad because, like, the Bears are going to get a new stadium. It's going to be indoors. It just feels like in 10, 15 years from now we're going to look back and be like, holy shit, no one plays outdoors.

1:56:33Big Cat:Buffalo, they're still going to play outdoors, which I appreciate. Is the one in D.C., is it going to have a retractable roof? And there go the thing, retractable roofs cost a half a billion to a billion dollars. How many times are you going to actually open it?

1:56:47PFT Commenter:I'd open it all the time if I was the owner, just to watch it open. Think about Atlanta Falcons. How many times have they opened that roof? That little asshole they have up there. Yeah, I'm talking about a navel. They got a navel up there. Like, what are you doing? So I just think money-wise, it's not worth it. Now I think what we're going to have is a glass house where it's going to look more outdoorsy than it really is. Yeah. Yeah.

1:57:12Big Cat:So you get the illusion that you're outside. That you're still outdoors. What I'm really excited about with the new stadium is destroying the old stadium. They're already taking it down. Yeah. But are they going to blow it up? No, they can't. It's in the neighborhood. They had to take it down piece by piece. So they're not going to detonate it. They cannot detonate it. See, I miss that. I miss when a team would move on from the old stadium and there would be a guy they'd bring. Because I wanted to be the guy that pressed the button at FedEx Field to blow that fucking thing up and remove it from the face of the surface.

1:57:40Big Cat:Don't worry about it. FedEx Field ain't going nowhere. We're going to turn it into an indoor beach, and we're going to keep that thing rocking. Okay, yeah. That'll be great. All right, so you're thinking soupy, though,

1:57:49PFT Commenter:even though the Packers obviously looked really good. Man, the Packers are scary. The Philadelphia Eagles are scary. And because we play the Eagles two to three times a year, they make me feel comfortable playing the Packers of the world. Like I always told – I told people the other day, They were like, how you feel about this loss? I said, I'm fine. Because if I got to play a team multiple times, I'd rather lose to them the first time. Yeah. We lost to the Packers the first time. I'd rather lose to them early than late. So I'm fine with that. I already know we're being tested by the best. So we're fine.

1:58:17I'm getting the questions I need answered. The question is, how healthy are we going to be? How healthy are they going to be? And who quarterback going to be hot at the time? Hopefully our quarterback is hot at the time. Because we started off kind of slow right now. Yeah. So I'm not scared of Green Bay, though, because we took their best shot, and their score was not what it looked.

1:58:37PFT Commenter:It was worse? No, no. The score was what? 20 to what? I thought that we were lucky to be in the game at the end. I don't believe in luck. Either you're in the game or you're not. Okay. You just traveled on a short week where you literally had 48 hours of practice. You traveled. You played this team at their home, and you left out of there, and you lost by what? But 10? Oh, yeah, I can take that.

1:59:02Big Cat:Well, I mean, if you're going – I hate that you're turning me into the guy that's like pushing back against the commanders. But I said – No, no. Speak up. The key points you made, how do you play against those good teams? I don't think we played very well against – I thought that the Packers were very clearly a much better team than we were. Yeah. I don't think it was close. And then two, health-wise, how did we get out of that game? Well, we lost Eckler. We lost Wise. They lost Jalen Reed. They lost guys. And our quarterback might be out this year, or for the next week. Yeah. I don't think that we had a good showing at all in Green Bay.

1:59:35Hey, we went up there and it was built to ass. All right? Yeah. But you know, as a child, when your daddy catch you coming out of that bathroom, catch you just right, because you did something wrong, you know you can put that hand right there to stop that butt whooping a little bit. Yeah. So we took a lid off of it. Yes. They thrashed us. They took advantage of the situation. They should have done it. It wasn't Jordan Love's best game. It wasn't their offensive best game. They got one of the coldest defenses in the league right now. I want to see it travel, though. I want to see that defense travel and play on the road.

2:00:08It's easy when you invite me to your house and you beat me up. That's fine. What's going to happen later then? That's the question. And they're not going to be a thing healthiest, too. Like, we all going to lose somebody. Yep. What about the Rams? Are the Rams in that combo? I like the Rams, and they're always going to be. As long as they got Matthew Stafford, they're going to be in that window. You don't add a Devontae Adams to that with their defense and Williams and their running game. They got a chance. That's what I'm saying. Everybody looks at the Rams as this subtle threat, not this immense threat.

2:00:37Like all of a sudden the Packers are the immense threat. But guess what? People are not even saying the Super Bowl champions are the immense threat. They are. Philadelphia Eagles are the apex predator threat. Yeah.

2:00:50Big Cat:I think it's because the Rams don't really blow people out. No, they don't. No, no, they don't. You never see that from the Rams. It's always relatively close. They don't push that issue. Once they get a clear path to victory, they take their foot off the break, and they chill.

2:01:03PFT Commenter:Yeah. Yeah. All right, so any teams that have super impressed you through two weeks? I know it's still early, but are there any teams you're like, oh, wow. I told you I took that shrapnel for them coach fans for calling Daniel Jones the most regular name in America, which it is. So now he officially goes by Indiana Jones. I'm telling you this. Indiana Jones and that offense hasn't punted the ball yet. Jonathan Taylor is running like it's two, three years ago. Those wide receivers, tight end group, they're proving to not really have a clear-cut weakness right now. So I can say the Colts have really jumped off the screen.

2:01:45Even if they had lost the game, I'd still be like, that's a good football team. That's a legit good football team. So the Colts are that. And I just can't stop marveling about how good the Ravens make me feel, even though they done lost the game. It's something, it feels like it's Lamar's time. Nobody can stop Derrick Henry. Their defense is turning the corner. It's layer cake on layer cake when it comes to them.

2:02:14PFT Commenter:Let me ask you a question about that, because I'm a big believer, like, obviously the Ravens week one, giving up 41 points. They were supposed to win a game. Yeah, they were. But from a defensive perspective, playing in the league, I do think that one or two times, even the good defenses, one or two times a year, there will be one of those games that just gets out of control where it's like, that's not what they are, but that's what that game was. Is that fair? That's so fair, Big Cat. I intended it to be a fart. It became a shard. You know what I'm saying? It was innocent at first. And two, it wasn't.

2:02:49And it's just game flow. Everything goes crazy. Because that's the one thing about defense. It's not guaranteed. That's because you was good against them. That don't make you good against them. And it's one of those things where it has an ebb and flow to it. And it happens when it happens. And that's why people start to play better defense as the year go on compared to earlier in the year. So I do think that that Ravens defense, especially with Hamilton, Higgins, all those guys, they get De 'Alexander back. Like, yeah, they are, to me, the team to beat in the AFC right now.

2:03:22Big Cat:Yeah. Yeah. Okay, so who else are the AFC? Bill's obviously a threat. Are the Chiefs dead? No, never. If you got Andy Reid, you got Patrick Mahomes, actually, to me, they are a bigger threat. Okay. Because they are the threat that everybody says, you know what, they're riding them off. They're a hurt animal? They're a hurt deer. All right? They're a hurt deer in the road. We ain't going to let them make it where I'm from, put them in the trunk. We're going to make sure we're going to get some business. All right? That's what it is. Now what if the Giants beat them, though? If they lose to the Giants Sunday night football?

2:03:52I'm still not worried. I'm just telling you as a guy that played a decade in a division with Andy Reid, never worried about Andy Reid. Like I'm telling you, we're just getting woe out by this dynasty. Like this dynasty has been going so long, it's time for them to push the reset button on the dynasty. Like they got a lot of old pieces that they used to winning with that they need to upgrade into new talent, new faster talent, knew different talent. That's all they need to do. They need to do what New England did. New England got to a point where we were winning with running game and defense, but now it's Tom's dynasty.

2:04:28So now we need to be more offensively explosive and less defensive. And that's what I think Kansas City is going to have to do. They're going to have to rewrite their DNA.

2:04:36Big Cat:Yeah. What about the Broncos? I know going into the season, everybody was talking about the Broncos' defense and how that's a defense that can carry you to a championship. They was the darlings. They were the darlings. And then, you know, last week against the Colts, they didn't look good on defense at all. They turned the ball over a little bit too, but they didn't look good on defense. Should we be concerned about the Broncos' defense, which should have been the strength of their team? The Broncos right now, a good analogy for this is a beauty queen. Okay. With a dead tooth in her mouth. Oh.

2:05:09All right, who's the dead tooth? The Broncos are the dead tooth. The Broncos are this beautiful, this beautiful girl, but you haven't talked to her. at. You walk up to her. You sit down. She's looking at you. Then you start to talk to her. You be like, yeah, I see why now. That dead tooth in your mouth had just killed everything I felt before I got here. The real part, I got to see you from within. They got growing to do. Just like us. People want to crown us. Crown the commanders. Crown the Broncos. Two rookie quarterbacks. Outplayed their status. Now the team is better. They got two great coaches, and now we're starting slow.

2:05:48And now people want to shy away from us. That ain't the way it go. Get a team some chance to mature. If your quarterback is only 20 games old, you still got some maturing to do.

2:06:00PFT Commenter:All right, Fred, I got one last question for you. Always great having you on. Great. Are you enjoying working with me? I enjoy working with me. I love having you here on Thursday. This is my type of place. I like loose. I like fun. I like intelligent. I like real people. Yeah, it's so fun having you here. Real people place. All right, so my last question, Roback question. R-H-O-B-A-C-K.com, promo code TAKE. 20 % off your first purchase. Q-Zips, polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts. Roback.com, promo code TAKE. Fred, what's your middle name? Not going to tell you that, Catfish. I told you. He told me before we started taping that he hated his middle name so much he changed it to Dwayne, which is an awesome middle name.

2:06:38Big Cat:I had always known you as Fred Dwayne Smoot. That ain't my name. Yeah. Lee? Think about me as an idiot. No. Think about me as an idiot. Think about me as an idiot. I remember Wikipedia gave me a call my senior year at Mississippi State. They was like, what information do you want on your Wikipedia? Wait, Wikipedia called you? Yeah, this is the start of Wikipedia, you remember? It's like 2001. It's the start. Okay. And I was like, okay. And I was like, well, I'm not going to put my real millionaire down there. I was like, well, what should I give myself? and I was like, Dwayne. That's a good choice.

2:07:18Yeah. So that started it off and then everybody thought that was my middle name where I said I did my job then because I wanted to make sure my identity could never get stolen. Okay. So the best way to do that is to flood it with not true information. That's very smart. And so nobody ever second guessed it. Let me see your driver's license. I won't tell anybody. I'm not going to listen. You know what? Is it James? Come here, because you are. What's the first letter?

2:07:46PFT Commenter:D. Of your God's given name? Yes, of my God's given Miller name. Danielle. I'm never going to say. Danielle. Now, you can never repeat this, because you probably ain't going to be able to repeat it. I'm not going to say it. Is it bad? Yeah. It's bad. It's bad.

2:08:10Big Cat:PFT. It's bad. To your grade. I get it. I get it. To your grade. I'll never say it. I'll never say it. I'll never say it. But yeah. So funny. I think you were correct to tell Wikipedia. Dwayne. It's Dwayne. Dwayne. Yeah, yeah. Dwayne. And I found it funny. Yeah. I found it real funny. Dwayne Smoot. Yeah. Do you like working with Gruden? I love it. I love it. Like, I've been around Gruden so much. Plus, I've been with his brother Jay. Yeah. Back in Washington. Talked to his nephew, Jack, all the time. So I've basically been a part of the Gruden family for a while. So me and Coach, I already had a relationship.

2:08:47So it was easy with me and him. That's why it's seamless with me and him working together.

2:08:51Big Cat:Yeah, it was great. Last week on Thursday, I walked down to the kitchen area, and it was just you and Coach just talking ball. Yeah. And I just stood there and I just watched. I was like, how lucky am I right now to be listening to these guys just arguing about football? Just back and forth. It was awesome. Just back and forth. And guess what? That's all the grooms. Jay is the same way. Jason, Jack is the same way. Like, Jack would call me at 2 a.m. in the morning. What are you doing, Fred? I'm asleep. What are you thinking of the hook? I got to ask you about this cornerback coming out of Texas A &E.

2:09:23PFT Commenter:That's who they are. It's football or nothing. I love that. That's great. Well, Fred, you're the best. Love having you on. We'll do it again in a couple weeks. And thanks so much. And hopefully Jay Daniels gets healthy. Hey, man, let's make it happen. Yep. PFT. Yep. To the grave. To the grave. I'm not saying anybody.

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2:10:56PFT Commenter:Okay, boys. Fyre Fest of the week. Wrap it up. Henry. Our guy Hank, Hank, Hank, Hank You got this, Hank, Hank, Hank I don't even know what you got, but you got this Hank, Hank, Hank, Hank

2:11:11Big Cat:I know his memes didn't chant Hank He was coughing Yeah, Firefest, it's kind of a weird one Because it's kind of like a Fire Luckfest But kind of a Firefest

2:11:22PFT Commenter:Fire Luckfest

2:11:23Big Cat:My car usually automatically locks When I get out of it If I have my key in my pocket

2:11:30PFT Commenter:Wait, fire luck fest or lock fest?

2:11:33Big Cat:Both. Luck. Lock, lock, lock. Kind of, not really.

2:11:37PFT Commenter:Luck, lock?

2:11:38Big Cat:Lock of the Irish. Lock, lock. Henry Luckwood, yeah. I leave work the other day. I get in my car. I notice like. What time? I don't know, 5 o 'clock, 5.30.

2:11:48PFT Commenter:About half day?

2:11:49Big Cat:Yeah, I guess. And I notice that everything out of my glove compartment has been ripped out. And I have my golf clubs. I have a bunch of stuff in my car, in the back of my car. it clearly it's someone had gone through my car like the door was not locked it was unlocked someone had went through it and they pulled everything out of my glove box but like they didn't seem to take anything and then i realized yesterday that they took they just took my gym bag what the fuck what'd you have in there just gym clothes oh so just like your sweaty underwear yeah it was just sweaty like a few shirts but i had like my golf clubs golf bag shoes

2:12:28PFT Commenter:a bunch of stuff in there security tapes i did not because i didn't i didn't i didn't realize

2:12:33Big Cat:that it was gone for like four days after the fact like i was just like oh someone's trying to get you so you don't work out i guess yeah i was it was but i i feel lucky that that's all

2:12:43PFT Commenter:they took this is unfair because if max or i had this story people would be like oh someone stole your gym stuff keep continuing so it's a word the world's dumbest thief i guess yeah i don't know

2:12:55Big Cat:if they were just trying like they maybe were just trying to do it quick so it's like in the middle of the day and they just try to hope that there was like a bunch of cash in there i'm not really sure uh there's nice shoes didn't have any cash i had some i had gym shoes but you know i've had them for a little while you know i lost probably two pairs of shorts a few pairs of boxers like four shirts what'd you get for working out for having such a great bod but yeah i feel lucky but it's a little bit it's a little bit eerie being like oh this that's kind of weird that like yeah it could have been any of us after they also in my glove box there was a pair of sunglasses which again they didn't take that i thought i had lost like a year ago that's weird oh so you you i kind of found yeah i gained sunglasses kind of a good trade yeah you can

2:13:39PFT Commenter:always get more shorts we get free shorts all the time yeah so yeah just a little little bizarre you've got to go through that footage yeah i don't know if it goes back that far and i'm sure we last week yeah we can get it we can get it we'll get this perp what if it was just what if it was max trying to get more in shape yeah like spider yeah it's the perfect crime

2:14:00Big Cat:who stole my gym accessories it was max no i would steal

2:14:09Big Cat:all right pft uh mine's also car related uh you might recall a couple years ago Got a new car Hank put up a pole in the parking lot And didn't mark it fairly And I accidentally drove my car into it Couldn't have seen it coming Someone had tried to take off some of the yellow reflective paint That was initially put on there Mystery person is unnamed But I was taken out to the car wash last weekend And as I went through the car wash Getting it cleaned off Because it was just in the tow impound lot Where I recovered it from last week It was covered in dust And it had stickers all over it So I had to pull it into the car wash, get it cleaned off.

2:14:47Big Cat:Then I said, you know what? Let's take care of the inside. Let's vacuum out the interior a little bit. So as I pulled into this parking spot and started to vacuum, a guy pulled up in the spot next to me and he got out of his car and he's like, hey man, that's a beautiful car you have. And I was like, why does this guy think my car is not beautiful? It's just like a pretty normal car. Right. I'm not talking about the El Camino. If it's El Camino, I'd be like, right on, brother.

2:15:09PFT Commenter:Yeah.

2:15:09Big Cat:But this guy was like, yeah, you have a beautiful car. I love that car. And I was like, thank you. He's like, I work with those cars all the time. I can resell them all the time. They're my favorite car in the entire world. I was thinking, this guy's leaning on pretty thick about a pretty normal car. What's his angle on me? And so I told him, hey, I'm not going to sell it. He's like, no, I'm not asking about selling it. It's a perfect car, except it's got that dent in the side of it. And I was like, yeah, it does have that dent. Tank. Yeah. My coworker essentially assaulted my car. Your boss. My boss, all of our bosses, assaulted my car.

2:15:45Big Cat:And he was like, I can get that out for you because I work in a body shop. I was like, I'm not taking it into a body shop. And he's like, no, I can do it right now because I've got all the tools with me. My boss, he knows that I take the tools home sometimes, but I can do that. They'll charge you$3 ,000 at the body shop. I can do it right now for$200. And I was like - What a deal. What a deal. What a great deal. But he was being super forceful. He was trying to push me into closing the deal right there. and I was like give me your card and I'll give you a call and if I want to get it repaired they'll drive it and to you and you can like pop it out it's whatever and he's like do me a favor go sit in your car right now go sit in your car because I've got the stuff right here and I can pull it out as we sit here the only thing is your car might go backwards because I'm gonna pull it really hard when I pull that thin out so I need you to put your foot on the brake as I pop this thing out and then I thought to myself you know what realistically I'm not going to take my car

2:16:39PFT Commenter:into a body shop it's been two years i haven't gotten it fixed yet i'm just not going to get it

2:16:45Big Cat:fixed but this guy this angel appeared before my very eyes and said he would fix it for the low price of 200 bucks and he's like also i see those scratches on the side was that from your boss in that same poll i was like yes it is he's like i got this epoxy that i can rub on it and it'll fill in those scratches so i'll take care of the scratches too all right so i get in my car i put my foot on the brake hear a popping sound and then i come out and it's got all the foam on it from all the epoxy he's like you're gonna be good just when you get home wait a couple hours and then wipe it down and get all that stuff all the foam that i put on the side off and the scratches will be filled in gotta let it set for a little bit i was like okay cool he's like it's 200 bucks i gave him more i gave him 250 bucks because i was like what a great guy this this dude is just like saved me days of my life where i'd have to drive my car in pick my car up that whole thing and then uh i got home later on it was dark outside went out wiped it down and then i was thinking to myself on the couch that's that was a really weird interaction yeah that was really really strange because he had his girlfriend with him and he kept yelling stuff at his girlfriend and the guy did it was the red flags were up so i just looked up online uh car didn't repair scam and then it's like nine pages oh no of step by step exactly what this guy did to me and i like to consider myself to be pretty good at not getting scammed i like to think that my antenna's up and it's tough to fool me this guy just absolutely took me to the cleaners i went back out to my car the dent's still there oh the scratches are all still there nothing's better whatsoever and it's not it's the 250 bucks whatever it's not the end of the world it's a It was a great deal at the time.

2:18:29Big Cat:I couldn't say no. It's more about me having to reckon with the fact that I got got.

2:18:33PFT Commenter:Yeah, I was going to say, I don't know if you can say you're good at avoiding scams anymore. I used to not be easy to trick. As you were telling that story, I was just like, this doesn't feel right.

2:18:45Big Cat:No, it didn't feel right at all. And I'm an idiot for him being like, go sit in your car and put your foot on the brake. Like my car, it was in park.

2:18:54PFT Commenter:Right.

2:18:55Big Cat:Like it was going to roll away because this guy was so strong. Right. just like break my parking gear uh so yeah i got got my car still dented it's still scratched and i'm never gonna fix it and i'm out to until i run in the next guy who offers me that same but that guy will be for real that guy's that guy what i learned the guy that i ran into on

2:19:13PFT Commenter:saturday that guy was not the official wallet inspector yeah so dent repair scams often involve unsolicited individuals in parking lots offering quick cheap dent fixes that end up causing more damage and leaving victims with costly repairs. Key red flags include aggressive sales tax, check, a focus on cash only payments, check. Oh, no, I did Venmo. Oh. Promises of same day repairs, check, and an inability to provide a written contract or online presence, check, and claims that you should not remove a wax-like substance they apply to the vehicle, check. Yeah.

2:19:48Big Cat:That's how he got me. He's like, you got to wait to take this thing off because otherwise the scratches won't be filled in.

2:19:53PFT Commenter:So was there a moment when you were taking it off where you're like, oh, this is fixed? And then you're like, shit.

2:19:57Big Cat:Yeah, no. Even after I wiped it down, the next day I was like, maybe he actually really did fix my car. Maybe this guy wasn't a scammer. Because at night, I waited a few hours, and then it was Saturday night. Then I wiped it down, but I couldn't see if it was gone yet. Yeah. So then I had to recheck the work. And yeah, I was thinking maybe this guy is actually the one legitimate version of this. Damn. So yeah, I got got. That's fine. It happens. That's brutal. I still have never replied to one of those texts that say, like, you owe money for a toll. True. Our boss did. So at least there's that.

2:20:29PFT Commenter:Yeah. Our boss did. All right. My Fire Fest. We already talked about my golf game. I got to get better. Got to just a terrible experience being that bad amongst people who are good. Apologies for having a bad attitude. But I don't know how you can have a good attitude when you suck that bad and you're letting your teammates down. Sucked. Couldn't help at all. Being a teammate and not being able to help at all, really bad feeling.

2:20:54Big Cat:But imagine how bad it would be if you played golf a lot and you expected more out of yourself. What did you expect was going to happen?

2:21:02PFT Commenter:Not hitting the ball five feet multiple times. My other fire fest is actually Zach's fire fest, car related. Okay. We got insurance for the new Vanny Woodhead, and Zach got denied the insurance, so he will not be driving Vanny Woodhead. You got denied? Turns out. Denied coverage? Go ahead. You don't have the mic on.

2:21:26Big Cat:Did they say why I was denied?

2:21:28PFT Commenter:I think it was the time on this podcast and the act that you've said you've been in four different accidents. That makes sense. Yeah, probably.

2:21:38Big Cat:You've been in or caused? I just – a few of those, we were just – I was in the car. Yeah. One of them, you were in the car. Uh-huh. You were in the car for all of them. Yeah. Actually, yes. I was in the car for all of them, not behind the wheel for all of them. That does make a lot more sense.

2:21:53PFT Commenter:Yeah.

2:21:54Big Cat:That's not good. No.

2:21:55PFT Commenter:That's all right. It's probably better that you don't drive it because you've been in four accidents. Zach, I got a question.

2:22:03Big Cat:Yes, sir. You're driving to Bloomington tomorrow, right? Yes, sir. Are you driving? I think we might split it up just because it's several hours. I did some research into the average amount of accidents that adults have, and it says like three to four accidents.

2:22:18PFT Commenter:Yeah, but that's what age? You're 27, you've been in four?

2:22:22Big Cat:Four, yeah. I think that's like a lifetime thing. Oh, so I might have the age ranges wrong. Yes, you might be done.

2:22:31PFT Commenter:You're done. You're not going to have any more accidents. It has been quite a while. That was a great O. Wait, so when was the last one?

2:22:37Big Cat:Several years ago.

2:22:38PFT Commenter:How many? How old were you? I was like five, between four to seven years ago, like a while ago. So you got into four accidents in the first like six years of you driving.

2:22:51Big Cat:I had a bad start. Yeah. Okay. Have you been driving a lot since? Yeah. I've had a car. I stopped driving when I moved here. I didn't bring a car with me. But before then, I was driving all the time. It's like one of my favorite ways to spend like a Sunday. You just hop in the car, go for a cruise. The average is one accident every 18 years of driving. So that math, that's no good for you.

2:23:17PFT Commenter:That's no good. That's no good. So you basically need to go accident list for the next 50 years to get back to the average.

2:23:26Big Cat:I think I got that in me. Are you a distracted driver? Not a distracted driver. One of the accidents I was distracted. But that was so long ago. You live and learn. I think accidents are like a health – you develop a healthy respect for the road when you get into an accident. Like a lot of people out there who don't get into crashes, they're texting and driving all the time, doing their makeup, all sorts of things, taking other people's life – like putting other people's lives at risk. You get an accident out the way early, preferably not on like a highway, somewhere like a 35, 45-mile-an-hour speed limit.

2:23:54Big Cat:You have a healthy respect for the road. Yeah. And if you have four of those, then you really respect the road. Too many accidents. Also, Zach has been in accidents where, am I right, four times, one of them you weren't driving, but all four times, or no, three out of four, you got hit?

2:24:14PFT Commenter:My side got hit, yeah. Every single time he's been hit.

2:24:18Big Cat:The only time my side didn't get hit was when the accident was my fault.

2:24:21PFT Commenter:Yeah, but every other time, wherever Zach sits in the car, he gets hit. Is everybody okay?

2:24:28Big Cat:Light injuries, no ambulance. No? Well, not in our car. There was this one time a woman did run a stop sign. She had to go to the hospital. Yeah. But it was her fault. It was her fault, yes. But she had like an older vehicle. Like the front end squished up pretty good.

2:24:42PFT Commenter:He got hit. But we don't know. We don't actually know what ended up happening with her.

2:24:47Big Cat:They wouldn't tell me, no. They said that was like pretty much not my business. Yeah. But that was not your fault, to be clear. No, that accident was not my fault at all. I still felt horrible that she was hurt enough to have to go to the hospital, though. Yeah. All right. Well, yeah. Good luck, Zach. Thank you, PFT. I'm going to try to continue the no accident streak. Sorry I let you down on the insurance pick. No, I don't give a fuck. Okay. It's fine. Okay. We might just have to try to get a really hilariously cheap insurance company. Yeah. It's no big deal. Your guy probably knows the guy. Yeah.

2:25:20Big Cat:No, he doesn't. That guy doesn't know anyone. Everyone he meets, he just scams. What were you going to say? I did have active car insurance until I moved here. Yeah. I guess maybe not van-sized. Yeah. That makes sense. Yeah. Jacob, I think Jacob might be a good driver. Jacob, yeah.

2:25:38PFT Commenter:Yeah. Yeah, Jacob's good. Jacob's clear. All right. What's your Fyre Fest?

2:25:44Big Cat:My Fyre Fest this week is over the last couple of days, I've kind of developed my wisdom. One of my wisdom teeth may be impacted. Oh. I know I'm a little bit late in life for that. And the first couple of days, I thought it was something I could shake off. this is a debilitating situation you're going to have to get him out I think so

2:26:05PFT Commenter:and you're also going to have to podcast right after you get him out for us Zach after dentist I'll pick you up and then we'll have you sit right there right after while you're still a little fucked up that's terrifying it's actually been seven accidents

2:26:23Big Cat:he starts telling us it might just fix itself because in like 2016, right after I moved to New York, my wisdom teeth were all fucked up. And I told the guys like, hey, I have to figure out a time where I can get my wisdom teeth out and we can still do the pod. So I waited like a weekend and then it just got better. And next time I went to the dentist, they were like, yeah, you need to get all four of yours out. Still haven't done it yet. Neither have I. Knock on wood. It's not fun. No, I'm full pop right now. I have them all still in. This side was good. Never had any issues. This one, I thought I would just like shake it off.

2:26:53Big Cat:Like I don't have to actually go to the dentist. Like what are we doing? Yeah. And then now it's like turning my head the wrong way. It's not good. Every time I hit the steps, going on the steps is a nightmare for some reason. You can't go on steps? I can. It just irritates it. I don't know if it's the pressure or what. What did people do before you were able to just get your teeth pulled out? I think they pulled them. Yeah. Even if they were like under the skin. Yeah, George Washington. Just like slice into them. You got all new teeth. You guys should go together.

2:27:18PFT Commenter:Also, Zach, can I give you a spin zone? Yes, sir. This is going to be huge for the weight loss. It has been. I haven't been able to eat or drink. Right, and when you get them out, you can't eat solids for four or five days. You know what you can eat? That could be good for the scale.

2:27:32Big Cat:Actually, I don't know if you can eat ice cream. I think you can. You can. Oh, you're going to eat so much ice cream. It's going to be awesome. You just got to do sugar-free. Zach, let me know when you're going to get yours out. We might do a date. You want to do man the dentist? I got to get mine out at some point. Two guys ate wisdom teeth? Yeah. Let's do it. We could sell them. Memes, do you have a fire fest? I had a conversation with Memes off air. I know it's it's regarding the upcoming NFL weekend so I feel like we do have to cover yeah oh yeah we have to cover no we were talking about the Jets a couple guys talking about this is all this is off mic stuff and memes said if we lose to the Bucs no if the Bucs no I'm gonna I'm gonna tell it from the beginning okay so we can't lose to the Bucs and we're like memes you're you're an underdog this weekend the Jets it'd be great if they won they have a good chance at winning but But you shouldn't say if we lose, this is a nightmare.

2:28:29Big Cat:He wants Aaron Glenn fired. What? Already. Wait, so when we referenced that earlier,

2:28:35PFT Commenter:when you're like some of the fan base and media, it's you? He's talking about him. You are. You're fan and media.

2:28:41Big Cat:I was saying if the defense gets embarrassed by an all-backup offensive line, he should probably be fine. You said if they If they score four touchdowns If the Bucs score four touchdowns Yeah another report came out That the left guard is also Didn't practice say They might just not have an offensive line So as a defensive coach You should be able to scheme something up That works in your favor In theory I agree In theory But to want him fired If you guys lose like 28 to 20 And you want Aaron Glenn fired In week three of a rebuild As seven-point dogs. As seven-point dogs.

2:29:24PFT Commenter:If they get embarrassed. What's the numbers three that you can't lose by? 22. 33. Yeah, I'd say all those.

2:29:39Big Cat:28.

2:29:39PFT Commenter:No, three actually would be fine.

2:29:41Big Cat:I would say 28 to three. Okay. Three would be fine. That'd be funny if you guys fell behind 28 to three and then you never scored. You're like, we got them. Yeah, it's a must-compete game You want them fired Must compete I want to see a competitive football team Against a team that has 2 % of their offense

2:30:01PFT Commenter:Yeah, must compete Alright, 3

2:30:06Big Cat:33 We'll go 2 for Tarad

2:30:09PFT Commenter:I think I found the new hack If you're talking two memes when you say it He's not going to be able to If he's thinking about the Jets

2:30:16Big Cat:It's like a dog with a treat

2:30:18PFT Commenter:Jets talk at the end of every show.

2:30:20Big Cat:Yeah, you can't get distracted by anything. 99, Pooh. 19. 76.

2:30:27PFT Commenter:Memes, what's your number?

2:30:29Big Cat:Two. Terod.

2:30:41Big Cat:67. 67. 67. I know what that means. Love you guys.

2:31:19Thank you.

2:31:53Thank you.

2:32:18Thank you.