Pardon My Take
NFL Trade Deadline, The Jets Trade Everyone, CFP Rankings, Johnny Fanta Talking College Ball Plus Listener Submitted Pardon Your Takes
05 Nov 2025
Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
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On today's part of my take presented by DraftKings, we've got a packed show. We got our guy, Johnny Fanta, Johnny Football, Johnny Basketball. We're going to talk some college football with him. We're going to talk some college basketball, which is back. We have the NFL trade deadline and the Jets have dismantled their team. We're going to get memes reaction. We get double memes reaction.
We have this instant reaction at the end of the show when we were taping earlier in the day with Sauce Gardner. And now we're going to get maybe a little bit more of a nuanced, sober-headed memes reaction. We've been gassing memes up all day. We have. I think we got memes in a correct headspace for this take.
The college football playoff committee has gotten together, and they've come out with some rankings. We're going to talk about that. Hot seat, cool throne. Pardon your take from the listeners.
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Chapter 2: How did the Jets dismantle their team during the trade deadline?
The Jets then traded Quinn and Williams for a first round pick to the Cowboys. How are you feeling now? I know that the rebuild you just did this three years ago and you're doing it again. And you also I want I want to have my guy memes back real quick. He got fired on Madden for this. Yeah. No, memes is Sam Henke. You remember what happened with the 76ers?
They crucified Sam Henke for doing the right thing. They booed memes because he was wrong. They fired him. They thought he was wrong. And guess what, memes? Turns out you were right. You were more right than anybody. Yeah. So how are you feeling? Feeling great, actually, right now. Oh. They turned two players into potentially six.
It's just sad because you want people to come into your organization. You want them to be Jets for life. We thought we had that with Quinn and Williams. Thought we had that with Sauce Garner. Yep.
Chapter 3: What are the implications of the college football playoff rankings?
And unfortunately, it's just time to rebuild again. Do you think you'll get players as good as Quinn and Williams and Sauce Garner with those six picks? That's pretty much the question. Or those three picks that you got. I think so.
I just think they didn't want to waste their prime on two back-to-back losing seasons because we've already established next season is also going to suck because of the schedule. This is part of the two-year plan. I think you're close to it. It wouldn't do you guys any good to have those players on your team. That's what the concern for you guys is. Yeah, because you're 1-7 with them.
And the Quinton Williams record, unfortunately, on the Jets was like 30-61 with zero playoff appearances since he was drafted. So you just got to try something new. Yeah. It's huge for the Colts. The Colts got a lot better. Yeah, this is a mess for the Colts. Sauce is still having a good year, even though people claim he's a holding merchant. Who claims that? The internet.
Okay.
You should stop reading the internet sometimes. Yeah. No, Sauce is still really good. He's just wasting his prime, and you just need pass rushers to rebuild from instead of corners. So, Memes, this is the two-year plan that you set forth because right now you're stocked next year and then 2027, which many people are calling maybe the best draft class of all time.
I read that take online a few times today. You're going to be stocked with picks. You've got to haul. I would even say, Memes, I dare say fleeced. I think you fleece the Cowboys. I would say fleece too. It's just the sad part is it's the same exact thing as three years ago. You have three first-round picks. You have two ā
You have two next year, three the year after, but it's the same as the Zach Wilson into the three pitch. Right. And the Quinn and Williams trade, that is a fleecing. I don't know why the Cowboys are doing that. The Cowboys, we're going to talk about Monday Night Football in a second. The Cowboys, it makes no sense why Jerry Jones thinks this is the team that he should go all in on. All in my ass.
It also made me think... The Micah Parsons trade was actually a steal for the Packers because Micah Parsons is more impactful than Sauce Gardner. They went for the same amount, right? I don't know if there was more picks. I think they upgraded a pick. I think one pick might have been upgraded in that.
But yeah, ultimately, Jerry Jones, if this was his master plan, I don't really understand the master plan. Yeah, my way of saying this is Jerry Jones is the big loser in all of this because he
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Chapter 4: What are the key takeaways from the NFL trade deadline analysis?
Okay. Renewable energy.
You're not a fan of it.
In your face. What about Diana Rossini? How did you feel how she handled today? Wind turbines are a sham. What? Sorry. What did you say? What? Wind turbines hurt more than they help. Go on. Especially in the ocean. The ocean and the whales. They don't think about the whales. Or any of the animals. And if the wind turbines break, then it fucks up the entire ecosystem.
What do you think about offshore drilling? I'll say this. I don't know enough about any of this shit to give you a confident take. Is that fair? Yeah. Like, wind turbines? If you said, hey, give me a take, good or bad, I'd be like, I don't fucking know. I have a take about wind turbines. They're not good.
If we're going to keep building them, we should build them the same way that the Dutch built them back in, like, the 1400s. What has changed since we started building wind turbines? The wooden ones with the, like, slats and the nice shingles on them. We can't get onto this wind turbine. We can't get onto this wind turbine. Memes did start it, and Hank's... I'll look into it, Hank. You know what?
I always give you things you got to look into and reports you have to come back. I'm going to look into wind turbines for you, and I'm going to let you know my thoughts. You just got to go to Indiana. I do think that Jerry Jones... I don't know if they're good or bad. I just look at them and know if they're good or bad. Yeah, make a determination. So we're just going off vibes. Off vibes.
Vibes, I'm going to say they're good, but I don't... Hank's giving me facts about all the ocean being all the animals, so now I'm thinking they're bad. I know the ocean ones are bad. Let's reel it back in here, boys.
Let's reel it back in here.
The ones in the Atlantic Ocean, bad. Indiana ones might be all right. We're doing a little idiot jazz.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of Sauce Gardner's trade?
Oh. He's cloning himself? Cloned his dog. Oh, this stuff kind of makes me... Yeah. It just makes me think.
Chapter 6: How does the NFL Trade Deadline affect team strategies?
It's like, I think it was a company that he invested into, and it's like... That's weird, because Tom seems like such a normal guy, and then he does something like this. What if he clones himself? The thing with this is... What if... That'd be awesome. The dog has to be a little bit different, and you notice it, and that's got to be so offsetting. Off-putting, sorry. How old was the dog?
So the dog passed away two years ago?
Yeah.
So the dog had been living with him while he was a Super Bowl champion. And so now you're bringing up a clone of your dog and expecting it to be the same when you're not a winner anymore.
Chapter 7: What insights does Johnny Fanta provide on college football?
He's still a winner. That dog's not going to have championship DNA. Did he rename the dog? Yes. Okay. I don't know, man. I don't think I can get behind this stuff. No. You like it, Hank? I support Tom.
Chapter 8: What are the key takeaways from the listener submitted Pardon Your Takes?
Yeah. Good answer. Yeah. Nice political answer right there. Good answer. And I feel like it's just a move that greats do is wanting to clone themselves. Ted Williams, Tom Brady. Let's get a super team going. It's your dog. It's your dog. There's going to be something different. In his defense, what other way is there to get a dog? Yeah, that's right. That's how you get dogs. Yeah.
Go buy Stella Blue coffee. You just extract blood from your old one, and then you send it to a lab, and then a robot mixes it together, and then they inject that into another female dog, and then your dog is born again. That's a beautiful thing about nature. Now we got to reprint all the shirt, like adopt, don't shop, adopt, don't clone. Yeah. Bone, don't clone.
Yeah.
Okay. Your hot seat cool drone. My hot seat is us. Oh. Sports podcasters. Uh-oh. So I was trying to look up some stats on Sunday night, and I was trying to find the last time that a team had lost four consecutive games by 21 or more points. And I ended up just asking our guy StatHole, who got it to me in like two seconds.
But I was looking all over the internet for the best ways to look up these types of stats, and I found in one of my searches a landing page for something called Fox Sports AI. Uh-oh. And I went to it. Okay. And it's a landing page for sports AI beta. But there's no AI bot that you can use yet. But it's like an announcement page for it, for a product that hasn't come out yet.
And nobody at Fox Sports knew what it was when I was trying to ask about it. And what it is... So they're going to make us? Yeah. So I read through it. They're creating a robot online that can do hot takes on demand. Ha! Ask sports AI for bold takes, trending topics, or a second opinion on a hot button issue. Whether you're defending your team or talking trash, sports AI is ready to jump in.
I don't know that AI can replicate what we do because we're so wrong. I don't think robots can be wrong on purpose. No, they can't. It's in their bylaws. I brought this up to Blutman, and he was like, it might just be Cletus. And if this is Cletus, then respect Cletus, the NFL robot. Mad respect.
When this comes out, we're going to have to do like a John Henry versus the machine against this AI bot to prove that humans are still superior. Oh, boy. We're cooked. Yeah, no, we are cooked. We got like two years. Two? I'd like to give us a little more than that. Every movie, it's like... That's when Hank is going to owe me $50,000.
The AI comes out, and then it starts to get smarter, and then eventually it gets smarter, and then things go haywire. We're trying to work with AI. I give it a couple more years before AI then just takes us over. Yeah. Although I did... Because everyone right now is like, oh, let's use AI. It's fun. AI solutions, like...
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