Pardon My Take
Seahawks HC Mike Macdonald, March Has Arrived, CBB, Combine Cleanup + 10 Years Of Pardon My Take Memories
02 Mar 2026
Chapter 1: What introductory announcements are made in the podcast?
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Chapter 2: What are the highlights of the upcoming interview with Mike McDonald?
I watched baseball today, which was crazy. They've been playing games for weeks.
Chapter 3: What insights are shared about the upcoming March Madness?
There is no offseason baseball. But he is right.
Pitchers and Catchers have already reported. They've already reported, but I watched a spring training game. I watched, like... actual baseball on TV. Yeah, it's all happening. It feels good.
Chapter 4: What stories emerge from the NFL Combine discussion?
I think it's the official end of winter. Winter's done. Yeah, I don't like to tempt fate. It was like 30 degrees this morning, and that's fine. 30 degrees, bitch-made weather. Next week, it's going to be 60. Get the golf shoes out. Get the shorts out. We made it.
Another joke year of winter in Chicago. Yeah. I'll say it.
Yeah. The only thing that sucked about this winter was the well, again, I don't want to tempt it because we will get it will probably snow in April now that we've said all this. But the snowstorm we had in Thanksgiving, that's what sucked when it was early. But other than that, it wasn't that bad. I feel like the Northeast got it worse than us this year.
yeah soft winter in the midwest yeah i think winter is now just earlier like it starts in november and ends mid middle of february are you saying that just because of this winter yeah okay because i was gonna say last winter was not that at all but this that's how it's gonna go okay what just happened is gonna keep happening
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It starts early and ends early.
I agree. It did feel like winter Irish goodbye to us this year. Yeah. It just kind of left, and we're gone, and fuck off, winter. By the way, hand up. We are an accountable podcast. When we get things wrong, we say we get things wrong. We fucked up. The clocks are changing this Saturday. Yeah. So hand up. We fucked that up. I woke up this morning. I was very confused.
I thought it was this weekend. Yeah. But yeah, that does mean more sunlight, Hank. Sunlight. Sun's going to be setting at like 645.
You know what that means?
You get to spend more time with the kids. Yeah. Yep. Very excited about that. It's golf season. Also, we got to do something about the clocks. Our clock situation. I feel like the daylight savings. I'm dead.
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Chapter 5: What does Mike Macdonald say about his coaching journey?
I did. like became my attention that I, I remember I had a LinkedIn page and I was so upset with myself that I updated it as like head coach. I was like, that was, that was a, that was kind of a chotch move. No, that's awesome. No, I just, and then I'm like, well now you, now it's like the overthink thing. So it's like, well now do I delete it? But now it's a thing.
It's like a Vince Vaughn wedding crash was in my mind.
It's like, you know, awards and recognition segment, like Superbowl champion head coach. Yeah.
You just got heavy.
Yeah.
Yeah. I don't know. Maybe it's kind of cool the way it is right now. I don't know.
Just like a time capsule.
I have a hard time thinking I'm going to go in and type that in. Log it in, yeah. That's going to be a tough thing to do.
How close were you? Because your story is awesome. You're the first Super Bowl winning head coach in play in college football. You thought about maybe going to Wall Street. Were you close to doing that? Or was it always like, hey, this is football. It's going to be football.
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Chapter 6: How does Mike Macdonald approach game planning for the Super Bowl?
So I wasn't like sacrificing that yet.
But you would have.
I totally would have neglected like everybody included. And I just got to the point where I was like, man, there's no future for me. Like I got to rip. I got to get out of here. And it's like, as God has it, it just puts the Baltimore opportunity in your life and just like, and then there you go. You're like, okay, let's go.
Would you have crushed it on Wall Street?
I don't know. I don't know. That sounds so boring. It does, but. Yeah. It wasn't Wall Street. It was KPMG, like a consulting gig. Okay.
What year was this?
2014.
Everybody's making money in 2014. Yeah, you would have crushed it.
Yeah, you would have crushed it. And I was a finance major. I totally knew that, by the way.
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Chapter 7: What lessons did Mike Macdonald learn from the Rams games?
And Tom Crean, yeah.
All of them.
But what's the difference between being in both of their systems? What's the difference between the two of them?
I got this question a ton at Michigan, and I finally told Jim. I was like, hey, I keep getting these. He's like, just tell him I'm taller.
I mean, well, you know, I'll let them figure that out.
And then I, so then I told John, I was like, Hey, you know, this is what Jim said to tell me to say. And John was like, well, tell him I'm two and oh, and I was like, Oh, okay.
They're exactly like that though. I remember last year in the combine, I was actually at a dinner with the two of them and like halfway through the dinner, they started having an argument whose head was bigger. And they took my hat and they were like, they were testing it on my hat. And I was just like, what's going on?
I believe that 100%. Yeah.
That's awesome. Imagine that at least once a day, Jim gets up and goes back to back with somebody to see who's taller.
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Chapter 8: How does Mike Macdonald reflect on the 10-year anniversary of the podcast?
I thought I invented power. Like I would doodle like plays during class and I brought it to my and we like we were running this play. And I was playing fullback and my job was to kick out the defensive end. And I just got like my ass kicked like all day, every day. Like the guy would kick my ass. And I'm like, well, if we would just like pull the guard, they're like. We might have something here.
I brought it to my coach. I'm like, hey, look, what do you think? And he's looking at me like, you're an idiot. So I was always interested in it. And then I, I did it when I was hurt my senior year. And then, um, again, like my high school coach ended up taking a job in Athens, not, you know, not near Atlanta. And then it was like, man, I, I gotta, I gotta go for this.
Did you, uh, did you play a lot of Madden to get good at like clock management and time management?
NCAA was my favorite growing up. And then that game kind of, yeah, men, men got better. Like what? 10 years ago.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Is there anything, like, specifically about video games that you can look at and see, like, this really helped me in my progression coaching actual football?
You know, it really is, like, problem solving. Like, this guy won't be running his freaking play, or he's got, like, a glitch play, and it's just, like, pissing you off, and you've got to figure out a way to... like stop it, you know?
And so like that happens, shoot every play when you're calling plays, you know, you're always either like attacking something or you're like mitigating risks somehow, or trying to like protect somebody or, you know, attacking somebody. So it's always a reason on like why you're calling it, but you're really playing off the guy that that's calling plays across from you.
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