Pardon My Take
Thanksgiving Special With Fred Smoot In Studio, CFB, Week 13 Picks And Preview, Kirk Cousins And PFT/Hank Rivalry Continues
Wed, 27 Nov 2024
Mega episode for Thanksgiving week. We talk the Harbaugh Bowl and who can stop the Ravens(00:00:00-00:15:00). College Football talk after a crazy Saturday and we have our first completely unbiased Heisman discussion(00:15:00-00:35:55). We preview the Thanksgiving games(00:35:55-01:03:14) and do Hot Seat/Cool Throne(01:03:14-01:20:26). Fred Smoot joins us in studio to talk Smoot smack, playing in the league, Mississippi State and tons more(01:20:26-02:02:15). If you have to work Friday this is where you stop We then preview all the Sunday games for Week 13 and Hank and PFT’s rivalry continues with some new evidence being presented(02:02:15-02:48:35). We then finish with Kirk Cousins talking Falcons, his Achilles injury, Wicked, Bijan and tons more(02:48:35-03:23:41)You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/pardon-my-take
Chapter 1: What are the highlights of the Harbaugh Bowl?
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On today's part of my take, we have an extra long Thanksgiving special for the people. We have Fred Smoot in studio. We have Kirk Cousins. We're going to talk college football. We're going to talk Monday Night Football.
a weekend preview we're gonna do a Thanksgiving preview we will tell everyone exactly in the spot that they can stop the show if they unfortunately have to work on Friday as is tradition we say it's like when you go out of town and you leave food for your cat yeah and then you know you have it on a timer we're gonna put you guys on timer so you get your Wednesday episode then you get your Friday episode
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Chapter 2: What were the key moments from the college football games?
19? 19, yeah. I feel like that call... was the Harbaugh Bowl getting the best of him where he's like, normally I wouldn't do this, but against my brother, I got to fucking do this. You got to.
I got to fucking do this. This was their Super Bowl for sure. Their mom and dad were watching. It was their anniversary. They were watching with Tom Crean. Yep. That should have been the Manning cast last night. Absolutely. It should have been Jack and Joni and then Tom Crean.
I walked away from that game not really changing my opinions on – either team like Ravens are really good the Chargers they have to I think the Chargers are good and they have to play perfect to beat a Ravens like team I do wonder little little thought I had when I was watching the game is there a chance Hank Bet the Chargers to miss the playoffs?
Well, Hank cashed out of his Chargers Super Bowl bet, which is pretty much the same thing. Do you think he— I didn't.
100%.
Again, DraftKings Sportsbook, they have a great feature, the Barstool betting group. All my bets go in there. So it's trackable. There's proof. There's a documented history.
Yeah.
No Chargers to make the playoffs has been placed.
A fully documented history of your troll bets. Mm-hmm.
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Chapter 3: What to expect in the Thanksgiving games preview?
If the New York Giants had Saquon Barkley this year, and this is where I feel bad for Giants fans because it's basically a constant, the clip of Mara and Joe Shane talking in the offseason.
That's just being hammered in their head, and memes does the... He's trying to deflect from the Jets, where he just keeps posting, like, rushing yards for the Giants, rushing yards for Saquon Barkley, touchdowns for Saquon Barkley, touchdowns for the Giants. All those insult stats. If Saquon Barkley was on the Giants this year... would the Giants have maybe one more win? Yeah, at least.
Like, they would still be a bad football team because they don't have everything else. They don't have a quarterback. So, yeah, I think the running back position is, like, if you already have the foundation and a good team and then you add an elite running back, then it's, yeah, that's where running back becomes very important and takes you to a Super Bowl level.
It's definitely worth it. And there are a few games where you can look back on and be like, one play really did kind of change the outcome of this game. And then this one would be Quinton Johnson dropping that wide-open pass. And then probably still would have lost, but that was a 30-yard gain. It was a 30-yard gain at least, and it was huge in terms of what happened right afterwards.
They give the ball away, they punt away, and then the Ravens go score a touchdown. It feels at that point like it's out of reach. Now, in that instance... If he catches that, the Chargers have a pretty good chance to win that game or at least come back and make it very, very close down the stretch. Now, I have a question for you about the way Justin Herbert handled that.
Yeah.
So he drops that. That's kind of been the knock against Quinn. He's had some bad times in the NFL. He's looked pretty good this year. His hands don't always work. They don't always work. It's okay. It happens. So when he drops that pass, Justin Herbert goes back and immediately throws two more passes to him in the fourth quarter. Mm-hmm. and he drops both of those as well.
Do you think that that was the right thing for Justin Herbert to do, to be like, I trust my guy, I'm going to try to build back his confidence? Or do you think it was very mean of Justin Herbert to keep throwing the ball to him? Or was it dumb of Justin Herbert to keep throwing the ball to him?
Is there an option C, that the Chargers don't have elite wide receiver talent and you've got to kind of just do what you get? Like Joshua Palmer was getting these deep targets. It reminds you that... The Chargers are... Build the whole team out of Ladd. Yeah, Ladd-McConkie's awesome, but the Chargers are, I feel like, an elite wide receiver next year away from being a real, real threat.
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Chapter 4: What was discussed in Hot Seat/Cool Throne?
He did have that sick touchdown run where he did the exact same thing he did in his high school highlight.
Yes.
Where he just stopped at the corner and let the guy go right by him.
Yeah, did you see?
The charges right now, I've got them, what are they, 35-1 to win the Super Bowl? Yeah, well, you don't have them. No, no, I'm looking at the odds right now. Yeah, yeah.
Hop back in.
I think I might hop back in on the Chargers to win the Super Bowl at 35-1. Yeah.
What do you have, Matt? I have 40-1 and 35-1. So hop back in. Be a friendship thing. Not you, Hank. You're not in the friend group. By the way, you mentioned that Lamar touchdown run. So Kevin Clark had an anecdote. He called the high school coach of Lamar Jackson. Yeah. His name is Don Hanna, and Lamar Jackson did that –
kind of play against him in high school and Don Hannah said like he was questioning whether he should be a football coach after Lamar Jackson did that he said there's something I'm not doing to put my kids in position to be successful the feeling stayed with Hannah for a long time Jackson had made him question his own coaching
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Chapter 5: What insights did Fred Smoot share in the studio?
Yeah. Okay. Do we have anything else from Week 12 before we get in? So the plan today... is we're going to talk college football. We're going to do the Thanksgiving games with a pick. And then we are going to have an interview with Fred Smoot. And then we can, everyone who wants to stop can stop. If you have to work on Friday, you can stop. Then we're going to do all the Sunday games.
And then we're going to finish with the interview. Great interview with Kirk Cousins.
Try to close your eyes and figure out who's Kirk Cousins and who's Fred Smoot.
Yeah.
Bet you can't.
Yeah. It's going to be tough.
Where's Hot Seat Cool Throne?
Hot Seat Cool Throne is right before Fred Smoot. So it's basically the regular show, and then we add on Friday's show at the end with another interview for the people. Let's do a little college football. By the way, it's brought to you by our...
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Chapter 6: What are the Week 13 game predictions?
I'm going to guess two. Okay. I'm going to guess two daughters. That's a lightweight order. That's $94 at Taco Bell between a football coach and two daughters. I can do that no problem. He might have had like $70 worth of orders. Yeah. So I don't know how that breaks down, but I do know that that's kind of a big boy. It's a big boy order to do that with your daughters.
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, hey, he deserved it. They rushed the field twice. Yeah. They rushed the field. There was rushing the field everywhere. Hank already pointed out, because he seems to only care about our teams losing PFT, that Nebraska rushed the field on Wisconsin.
It's a big win for Nebraska.
Yeah, they deserve it.
They haven't been to a bowl game. In like a decade. Yeah. Been a bad, bad football team.
Yeah. Really bad. And shout out our good friend Dana, because he turned around that offense.
Yeah. Good. Shout out to Dana. Also, news breaking this morning, Mack Brown has been fired. Oh, I thought he was going to come back. Mack Brown has been fired by the University of North Carolina. He said he wanted to come back after he tried to retire halfway through the season. He quit. He quit after JMU beat them, I think it was 70-50. Yeah. He quit for 24 hours.
I don't even think it was 24 hours. I think it was like a five-hour quit.
Remember, he told his team, I don't think I can coach you anymore. And then on Sunday... They talked to Mac Brown's assistant, and he was like, he'll be at work on Monday.
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Chapter 7: How does the rivalry between Kirk Cousins and PFT continue?
Yeah, and didn't Melvin Gordon, he put up some of those stats against a very vaunted Nebraska defense.
He ran for 400 yards against Nebraska.
A really tough defense with great linebackers.
Another random guy because we've never seen this before. Again, Ashton Gentry having a great year. He's having a great year. Monty Ball, I don't know where he played. 2011, he had just south of 2,000 yards, 39 total touchdowns. And he was fat. And he was fat, and he did that. I think he was in the Big Ten as well. We also have just random guys.
Kevin Smith, who played for UCF in 2007, he had 2,500 rushing yards and 29 touchdowns. And Rashad Penny, who actually plays in the Mountain West in 2017, had 2,248 yards, 7.8 yards per carry, which is more than Ashton Gentry, and 23 touchdowns. So it seems like... We maybe have seen this before. Again, we're very unbiased here. This is our unbiased Heisman Trophy take.
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Chapter 8: What is the latest on the Heisman Trophy race?
Yeah, and, you know, Barry Sanders did it a long time ago. All-time great. Nothing to take away from Barry Sanders. He had some very, very impressive stats that are, I think, currently, as they stand, better than Ashton Gentry's. So Ashton Gentry is doing stuff that has... Almost never been done before, with the exception of those, what, five people that you mentioned?
Well, actually, I want to give credit to Ashton Gentry real quick, because he has done something that's never been done before, as far as I know. He had nine total touchdowns against Utah State and Georgia Southern. I don't know if anyone else has done that. So a third of his total touchdowns came against Utah State and Georgia Southern. So he has done something that no one's ever done.
Yeah, but overall, big picture, zooming out, very impressive season. Incredible. I'd say one of the best seasons for a running back of all time. In the last five years. Five years, yeah. Now, wait, Georgia Southern, they beat Ole Miss, right?
I don't think so.
They lost Ole Miss, yeah.
They had one big, oh yeah, James Madison. Utah State, I think, has four wins.
They beat James Madison, that's what it was. So, you're right, Big Cat, pretty impressive season. Travis Hunter was the other name that came to mind. Oh, who's he play for?
I don't even recognize that name.
He plays for the Colorado Buffaloes. Ask me what position he plays.
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