Happy New Year: Big Back’s Ban Wagon
Big Mac is leading the charge against Mac Jones until Commish shoves him into a locker and bullies a hot take out of him. The Patriots are in the playoff hunt. Jayson Tatum goes for MVP and the Red Sox consider their pitching staff a position of depth. PLUS hello to everyone except Ray.
Big Mac’s 20 year ban wagon
HEADLINES with The OBVIOUS ONE
Patriots playoff bound
Tatum’s MVP campaign
Red Sox sign 2x former Cy Young winner to tank
Simplest Minds of the week
SHOW NOTES:
Cold Open - Happy new year, RIP Pele.
Opening Takes
Bobby
Ray
Rich
Show rundown
Dr Big mac denounces the Pats
Patriots still in the playoff hunt
Tatum's MVP campaign
Red Sox update
Simplest Minds of the Week
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Dr. Big Mac Denounces the Patriots
Patriots 18 - Bengals 22
- Botpod openly rooting against the Patriots and mocking the mistakes and eventual loss
- The Obvious One caught the longest band wagon ride of his life in 2001 and has since jumped off
- Hated Bledsoe fuck the pats
- Loved Brady
- Hated Brady
- Loves Brady
- Hates Mac Jones - fuck the Pats
Dr. Big Mac (and a growing segment of Pats fans) have shifted all the blame onto Mac Jones as the worst QB in the league. Is it fair?
- Coaching
- O line
- Run game
- Pass catchers
Any of them any good?
How many QBs have been talked about as a victim of circumstance?
How often is it drilled in our heads that QBs drafted need to land in a good situation in order to succeed
- Is 2022 Patriots offense a good situation?
Who succeeds with that dysfunction? Brady couldn't even do it at the end.
- Rodgers is struggling this year with a good offensive coach
- Mahomes has had top pass catchers and the leagues greatest offensive mind as a coach
- Josh Allen sucked until Dabol got him and Diggs came to town.
As a reminder. Patricia is running a highschool offense and it was rejected by the players almost unanimously in fucking July.
Reminder - Patricia was ran out of Detroit with pitch forks because of how much they loathed him as a leader
Reminder - Joe Judge ran TWO Qb sneaks on 2nd an 3rd down
Reminder. Both the Lions and Giants are in play off contention 1 and 2 years after these walking nut sacks left.
Reminder - When Zappe was forced to play pro QB agains the Bears he threw 1/2. a dozen balls into the DL facemask because he's "average height"
-That's all Mac Jones' fault.
* Mac Jones is a top 12/10 QB with a functioning system. Can be a consistant playoff QB with enough talent around him.
- I know this because I watched it happen last year as a rookie
* have we mentioned he's a 2nd year player?
- How do the rest of his draft class look?
*The 2022 Patriots are a losing team. Losing teams make losing plays. That's on coaching
HEADLINES with The OBVIOUS ONE
The Patriots are still in the Playoff hunt
A Win against the Tua- less Dolphins and playing for nothing Bills gets them in
Other scenarios
they’d need both the Las Vegas Raiders and Pittsburgh Steelers to at least lose one more game the rest of the way. The Steelers still have games against the Baltimore Ravens and Cleveland Browns coming up on their schedule, while the Raiders will finish out their season with meetings with the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs
Other dominos that would need to fall would be the Jacksonville Jaguars not beating the Houston Texans and then going on to lose to the Tennessee Titans. The New York Jets would also need to lose to the Seattle Seahawks but then bounce back with a win over the Dolphins.
Is it best for the Pats to miss the Playoffs?
- No. Tanking doesn't work.
- Play off experience is crucial
- You're not getting rid of Mac Jones ( Unless Kraft gets a boner for Brady - even then)
- Writing is already on the wall for changes in coaching staff
* STAY RELEVANT
- How bad are they actually?
-Past two weeks were pissed away
- Minnesota - winnable
- Bears - fluke (Coaches Fucking with the QB controversy)
- pussy play calling vs Packers
- two missed plays vs dolphins
* Only non competitive game was the Bills
Defense keeps you close most every game no matter how boring and dysfunctional the offense is.
* pats are a .500 team because of sloppy play.
The roster should be 10 or 11 wins. I want that team in the playoffs
- Missing the playoffs speaks volumes about you as an organization
- you dont want that
QUICK BREAK
Jayson Tatum's MVP Campaign
stats
31 - 8 - 4 - 1.2 steals - 1 block
48% 36% 88%
5.2 win share
Plus Minus - 9.49. best in NBA
37 minutes per -
Most minutes played last season 3714. (400 more than next closest) Plus Olympics
Jayson Tatum has the most minutes played in the NBA since 2017-18 (15,721) & has played in 1,105 more minutes than any other player in that span. - Dec 1
This season - Top 3 in minutes played
* would be 1st Celtic ever to average 30 for a season
* would be first celtic to win MVP since Bird in '86 (3 straight years)
Celtics best record in the NBA 25 - 10
Luka put a dent in the campaign
60 -21 - 10 (in OT)
33 - 8.7 - 8.8
50% - 35% - 74%.
6.5 win share
Usage 38.1 most in his career - Leads the NBA
8.78 plus minus - 2nd
Giannis
Jokic
Embid
Steph
AFTERNOON DELIGHT
Checking in on the Red Sox
- Eovaldi out
- Rich Hill out
- Corey Kluber 1 year $10 million 10 - 10 4.5 ERA for Rays. 2nd best K - walk ratio last year
* Sox looking to move Sale as Pitching staff is a point of depth
Sale
Kluber
Pivetta
Paxton
Whitlock
Bello
It's a fire sale
* There is no tanking in Boston if you're the Red Sox, only being cheap
Here's the problem with the re-set
- They are full of shit saying it isnt a reset
- They dont have enough young talent projected to make it worth it in the time period aloud. (3 years tops.)
Lowest viewership ever from NESN last year
Lowest attendance in John Henry Era
- Payroll has dropped $45million
- Highest ticket prices in baseball just went up
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