Pardon My Take
Doug Pederson In Studio, Week 5 Picks And Preview, Playoff Baseball, Big Cat Won The 50/50 And An All Time Fyre Fest
03 Oct 2025
Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
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Okay, let's go. Hey, football guy. Martino. A.W. Hill. Bart and Mike say, yeah. Bart and Mike say, yeah. Bart and Mike say, yeah. Welcome to Part of My Take.
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Chapter 2: What are the highlights from the Thursday Night Football game?
Me? Yeah. I mean, we're a football podcast. Okay, let's start with football. Let's start with football, guys. Also, great Thursday night football game. Great Thursday night football game. Shout out to Kyle Shanahan and Sean McVay. That was an awesome game. Mack Jones, 3-0 as a starter for the Niners now. Yeah. I think he joins Jimmy G and Y.A. Tittle. Yeah, that was a Kyle Shanahan masterclass.
Yeah. Because Kyle Shanahan, they showed the graphic early in the game. The 49ers were without Brock Purdy, Ricky Pearsall, Brandon Ayuk, Juwan Jennings, Ben Barch, George Kittle, Nick Bosa. That's a lot of really good players. And short week. Divisional opponent, goes down to L.A. with Mac Jones, and he wins the game in overtime.
And Mac Jones balled out with probably the largest knee brace I've ever seen in my life. Yeah, it was huge. He literally left it all on the field because he couldn't puke anymore at the end. When he was walking off, he looked like he was just broken up with by his high school girlfriend. And he couldn't puke, but he was crying and dry heaving. Yeah. And he was cramping.
He was eating the electrolyte gum. And he balled out. And we got some takes that came out of it. Did you guys see? Can I read a take for you? Yeah. Okay. If the 49ers draft Matt Jones like was rumored, instead of Trey Lance, so many things are different. The 49ers probably win a Super Bowl. Matt Jones is one of the highest paid QBs in football. And we never find out just how good Brock Purdy is.
And then the Patriots get Trey Lance? I don't know. How does that one work out? I don't know, but we are going from Thursday night. This was actually tweeted in the first half by Ryan Clark. We went from a first-half Mac Jones to then giving a hypothetical Super Bowl title to the 49ers and hundreds of million dollars to Mac Jones. This is also a big-time backhanded slap to Brock Purdy, too.
Oh, yeah.
So, I mean, when you watch Kyle Shanahan's offense, you do think that it's easier on quarterbacks than some other offenses are. Like, they tailor it to what your quarterback can do. They make it easy for you. They rehab you. It's a good place to go if you're a neglected quarterback like a Sam Darnold and you want to get back and ā
Find that forever home that's been struggling you or evading you. But, yeah, it does seem like if you can find yourself working with Kyle Shanahan as a quarterback, you can make yourself a shitload of money. So now is actually the time when Mac Jones, he should really lean in to the leg injury. Yes. Be like, I'm too sore. Please sit me out. I'm due to make millions of dollars on the open market.
At the very least, as a great backup. Yeah. Good backup option. But it was a hell of a game by the 49ers. They're 4-1 now, and it's basically going opposite of last year where they lost everyone and the wheels fell off. They've lost everyone again, but the wheels have stayed on. They're 4-1. They get a little break. They have a division win. They got to feel pretty good about this.
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Chapter 3: What is the significance of Big Cat winning the 50/50 raffle?
I don't know. I feel like the game on the line, I want Matthew Stafford and Puka Nakua to be involved. Maybe a handoff to Puka. I think maybe a jet sweep around to Puka Nakua would have been nice.
Yeah.
It's a minor point. I'm probably stupid about it. I just think Matthew Stafford is so good. And you knew he was coming back in this game. The first half, I think they got kind of punched in the mouth. Also, weird... Weird whistle on that fumble on the kickoff. It was definitely a fumble. Rams got kind of screwed on that. But yeah, you just knew Matthew Stafford was going to bring him back.
He just, I don't know. He's an all-time drop back if he has more than two seconds. You just know it's going to be a bomb and it's going to probably be complete. The one to two-two at well? Yeah, when he did the little spin move out of the pocket. Yeah. And a lot of quarterbacks do that, and you think, oh, he's about to panic.
Right.
He's about to do something stupid as fuck. But with Matt Stafford, when he started the spin move, he knew exactly what he was doing. He was like, I got to buy myself half a second, move to my left a little bit, and then hit two-two in the open. It's like watching Matt Stafford for as long as we've watched him.
When he loads up, you just know, oh, they're going to show someone on the other side of the field when this camera pans, and he's going to be just getting open right when the ball is delivered there. Yeah, he's so good. And remember like a month ago when Matt Stafford couldn't walk? Yeah. When he was like, is this guy going to be able to play football this year?
He was doing therapy on the charger. He was in a med bed. Yeah, yeah. Med bed Matt. Yeah. Yeah, but now he's back. Yeah. So I do think the Rams are still good, but this is a bad loss, especially considering that they lost to the Eagles. They half lost to the Colts. Yeah. The Colts beat themselves, and they lost this one. So the Rams are kind of ā I feel like this is what the Rams do, though.
They have these early season, like, we're trying to figure it out. Yeah, I mean, I'm not going to make any bold proclamations about the Rams based on this guy. I think, if anything, it shows that the Rams are good. The 49ers just... There's something about these types of games, too, with Kyle Shanahan and some of those other young guys, like LaFleur. I think Sean McVay is kind of the same way.
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Chapter 4: What strategies should teams use against mobile quarterbacks?
So the Cowboys stink at defending mobile quarterbacks too. So they let Russell Wilson, he averaged 7.7 yards on his runs against the Cowboys.
Jordan Love had his longest run of the year they stink against mobile quarterbacks I think Hurts yeah Hurts had 60 yards two touchdowns in week one you have a pretty mobile quarterback very mobile just like run run the damn ball and then on your pass plays just have unless there's a guy wide open have Jussie just tuck it run yeah What about what Aaron Glenn said about you guys about to pop?
Are you guys about to pop? I love that. I don't love what Justin Fields said. But he kind of said the same thing that I said. Yeah, that's a bad mindset to have. Okay, so Justin Fields, similar to my Earth is a 24-hour day, and we only show up in the last minute, and that's how small life is, human life is, and we're all inconsequential. Justin Fields said, we're blessed at the end of the day.
You look at the bigger picture in life. We're getting paid well to play a child's sport. Good perspective. Great perspective. Great perspective. Maybe not a winning perspective.
Chapter 5: What is the significance of the bye week for NFL teams?
I kind of see, now that I've said it out loud, I kind of see where you're coming from. Not a winning perspective. But good perspective. It's very good perspective. Memes. We get paid to do idiot jazz on this show. Yeah, but sometimes you got to make shit up like Baker and just find extra motivation. Yeah. Yeah. There's a little bit too much perspective, I think, from Justin.
When you start to think about yourself as being in the top 0.001% of people to ever play quarterback that's ever existed, that's definitely some cope. But maybe he's just not getting down on himself. You want his confidence there. I'm in the top 0.001% of tall people in the history of the earth. That's true. Wait, is it?
Chapter 6: How do injuries impact team performance this season?
Oh yeah. When you, yeah. I mean, are you sure?
Back in the 1700s.
Kids that died early. Yeah. That's a great point. It's true. Great point. All those dead kids, Hank. And also, yeah, everybody, everybody until like 1900 was five foot five. Everyone stopped for a second and think about the dead kids. Poor one out. I'm just trying to think of people that died shorter than PFT. Yeah, that's true. Basically just children. Short Kings, King Tut. That was mean.
He was literally a short king. No, what he said. All the people that died. No, he said, think about all the people that are smaller than PFT and it was basically just children. That's just not true. Hank's lashing. He's pre-lashing because he thinks I'm going to do some weird Drake May thing with him. But it is. This is the week. The defenses are up today. The defenses are up.
I'm happy that I have a bye week this week. We should have mentioned that. There are bye weeks this week. Steelers, Bears. I had it written down. Falcons, Packers. Yes. Early bye week. I kind of like it just in the fact that we don't have the overload 10 games in the noon slot. Yeah. It's bad, bad, bad podcasting.
No, go for it. It's great if the Cubs... That's the name of this.
It's great if the Cubs won. Okay. My week. Oh, yeah, yeah. Having the Cubs to focus.
Yeah, we're taping this in the morning.
We don't know the result. Obviously, you heard it at the beginning of the show. Yeah. Yeah, it would be nice because then I'd have Saturday and Sunday. Yeah. But we'll see. It is bad podcasting. Yeah, you're right. You're right. That was bad podcasting. Okay. Broncos at Eagles. Broncos plus three and a half. The over-under is 43 and a half. Max, how are we feeling?
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Chapter 7: What insights does Doug Pederson share about coaching decisions during games?
And get teams beat, which to me is the end of the half and end of the game. Yeah. Right. And not making good decisions. So when I was in Philadelphia, John, John was that voice of reason for me, you know, in the press box. And Zach was that guy for me in Jacksonville. And again, as good as gold, they were on point.
And it really took a lot of the guesswork out of it for me and just say, hey, throw the challenge flag. Call a timeout here. Don't call a timeout here. Let's let the clock run, things like that. Those guys were good as gold.
Chapter 8: How does Doug Pederson reflect on his relationship with Andy Reid?
Do you laugh? You have a long history with Andy Reid. He was your coach as a player, and then you were on his coaching staffs. Do you laugh when people are like, oh, the Chiefs are in trouble, and you're like, Andy's going to be fine? Do you talk to him at all? People freak out and they think, oh man, the sky is falling after a couple weeks. But you know him so well.
I would assume he's unflappable in these moments. He's the best in these moments. And I do chuckle when I hear things, whether it's through the media or friends that talk about the Chiefs are done. The Chiefs, maybe their run is over. You know, Pat Mahomes is not the same. Kelsey's not the same. Coach Reed, not the same.
I just have to sit and chuckle because the history of Andy Reed, if you go back and just look at his teams, they always kind of start slow, but finish extremely fast and very powerful. And and they're just I think last week kind of cut their stride just a little bit. By no means are they there yet.
We were only four weeks in, but yeah, I just sit back and just kind of go, I just wish they knew who Andy Reid is, who Andy Reid was as a coach, and I think they'd have a better picture. Was there ever a time when you were coaching with Andy Reid where you had to be like, hey, should we think about running the ball a little bit?
That's the thing that really is interesting because Andy does run the football a lot. Yeah, but there's been times when he's... He's been criticized for throwing it a little bit too much. Yeah. I would never say that. I would never say that, you know, when I was working for him. But, you know...
I think every play caller gets to a point in their career where they kind of need that voice of reason in their head saying, hey, coach, dial up a few more runs. Let's take a little pressure off our quarterback right now. Let's try to help our football team maybe get into a rhythm. And sometimes running the ball can help that.
When you were working with Andy Reid, did you ever say to him, hey, coach, maybe it's time to wear pants instead of shorts at practice? Is it a little bit cold out here? 40 degrees might be a little bit. No. No? Always shorts, right? Always shorts with him. Always shorts. And in the office, he always wore his rainbow sandals. Love that. Yeah. Love that about it. Yeah. Yeah.
Now that you get to watch it as a fan, that's got to be a cool experience to be able to enjoy an NFL Sunday like everybody else enjoys it, sit on the couch, flip back and forth from the games. Is there one team that you're watching where you're like, okay, they're doing something different and it's really intrigued you?
Um, I, you know, I try to watch and not, not necessarily a specific team, but I do watch teams that have a new, maybe a new defensive or offensive coordinator and sometimes even a, maybe a new head coach like in Jacksonville, for instance.
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