Pardon My Take
Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
Wed, 15 Jan 2025
The Rams end the Vikings season and Sam Darnold’s dream run is over(00:00:00-00:20:23). We talk future for Darnold , Cowboys Fire Mike McCarthy and the pinky bet (00:20:23-00:35:36). Hot Seat/Cool Throne including China and Lane Kiffin and Jeontay Porter (00:35:36-00:51:25). Booger McFarland joins the show to talk NFL Divisional round, college football national championship, Rams defense and more (00:51:25-01:33:48). Dana White joins the show to talk UFC 311, power slap, getting oiled up and a crazy future fight (01:33:48-01:54:55). We finish with guys on chicks (01:54:55-02:05:55).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 happened in the Rams vs. Vikings game?
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And the Los Angeles Rams are a problem because they demolished the Minnesota Vikings who end with one of the weirdest seasons possible. 14 wins, four losses. They only lost to two teams. They lost to the Lions and the Rams. That's it. Great team. We're not playing those two teams.
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Chapter 2: What does the future hold for Sam Darnold?
Rams defense was incredible the Rams just overall like we were sniffing around it we're like what is Sean McVay up to yeah he doesn't care about seating he had a perfect game plan the Rams look great Stafford looked like he was healthy for the first time in a long time but yeah I agree some of those were Sam Darnold Not seeing it. And I think Troy might have said it.
Maybe it was in week 18 someone said it. The problem with Sam Darnold is he has to see it to throw it, guy. He's not throwing as much anticipation, throwing guys open. And he couldn't see it last night.
Yeah, Troy. There was something about Troy's voice. Did you notice that? Yeah, also. It seemed like he was very, very frustrated.
I love when Troy Aikman gets mad at a team because he gets so disgusted.
He just hates bad football.
Yeah, and he was so mad about them being down 18 and they were running the ball and going slow to the line. That was a problem for me, too, in the third quarter.
You're down, how many scores did they have, two or three? They were down 18, I believe. They were down 18 points, and they're calling three running plays in a row and taking their time, getting in the huddle, getting up to the ball. You've got to go at this point. I felt like Kevin O'Connell just knew he wasn't going to win. He's like, it's not in the cards today. So what's the rush?
Yeah, so a couple things. Minnesota, we've talked about this before. Minnesota fans listening to this right now, you guys deserve credit for being one of the most cursed sports cities out there. The last time they were in a championship round was 1991 with the Twins. They've had some really, really... The problem with the Minnesota sports is they're actually...
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Chapter 3: What are the latest NFL coaching changes?
Like, good, but they're never good enough to win, and they haven't had a title in whatever it is, yeah, 30 years, and they have all four major teams, and the Vikings especially feel like that curse franchise where they have these seasons where they're phenomenal, and then they fall flat, and everything went wrong for them last night.
Yeah. It's like if you built an entire city out of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Yeah. That's what their sports teams have been like. I do feel bad for him. I do, too. This is a good team. Yeah. And now they have to face some a lot of it's not just Sam Darnold. They have a lot of free agents coming up this offseason.
And you have to figure out what's going on with your coach because he doesn't have a contract.
Yes.
He's probably going to win coach of the year, as he should. He had a great season, but he's not he's not locked in for the long term yet.
Yeah, it did feel like the last two games he got, I don't want to, I mean, it just didn't go well. I mean, the Rams did a lot of what Aaron Glenn did in Week 18 defensively. And yeah, I think, honestly, for a positive spin zone for Vikings fans, this is, as much as it's frustrating because you're a 14-win team and you lose like that in the first round,
this might be a long-term positive because you are not going to give Sam Darnold a long-term contract. You might still franchise tag him just because that gives you flexibility if J.J. McCarthy is not all the way ready and you could potentially trade Sam Darnold to a team that needs him for... You get two first-rounders for him. Right. So, like, I could still see that happening, but...
In a weird way, this is actually a positive where it's like you're not going to commit to Sam Darnold long-term after how this season ended. I was talking to a friend of mine who's a Vikings fan last night, and it is crazy to look back. The Minnesota Vikings have a special skill where they make old quarterbacks or quarterbacks on their fourth or fifth stop
Really fucking good for a year and then it just completely vanishes so going back Randall Cunningham when he was 39 years old this was after he retired he retired for a year he had the second best QB rating of his career with the Minnesota Vikings. Jeff George, he was on his fourth team. He had his best career QB rating for the Minnesota Vikings.
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Chapter 4: How did Booger McFarland assess the NFL Divisional round?
This is not the same Vikings that we saw a couple years ago where they had a negative point differential and they lost in the playoffs to the Giants. I think it's a different feel to the season. They were a legitimately good team. Right. Maybe it's just they have two kryptonites. They have the Rams, and they have the Lions. The Lions.
So if you can get a schedule next season where you don't play the Lions somehow, that would be optimal for the Vikings.
The Week 17 Vikings celebration after Packers win looks a little bit not as fun.
Well, you know what? It's also the same thing. We talked about this earlier in the season. Teams after they play the Lions suck. Yeah. So as long as you don't play the Rams right after you play the Lions. They did that twice. You had to do it twice. You might be better than the Rams. Yeah. Happened to have gotten your ass kicked by the lines.
Yeah. And on the flip side, as for the Rams, I'm concerned about my pinky. Max, you should be concerned about this game on Sunday. They looked really fucking good in their defense. We're going to talk about it with Booger more, but their defense is very good. Their pass rush is awesome. What are you thinking?
It's playoffs. Second round of the playoffs, you're going to play good teams. Rams are a good team. Eagles are a better team. Oh, fuck yeah.
Got to get Jalen Hurts out of concussion protocol.
Jalen Hurts will be fine.
Okay.
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Chapter 5: What insights did Dana White share about UFC 311?
It's like the tuck rule. That was a loophole.
That's a savvy vet.
That was a savvy vet.
I said it, best throw he's ever made. It was a great throw. I mean, he had a receiver that was technically in the area. We need to revamp intentional grounding.
because there's so many times when it's clearly when you throw the ball directly at the feet of your receiver on a screen that you're trying to get rid of you're not trying to complete the pass there well it's the only rule in football where they the refs always have to like huddle up and be like all right what'd you see what'd you see and every other rule you just throw a flag and then they they do the sad little impotent flag after they have the conversation they just take it out of the pocket and just drop it and let gravity do the work yeah at least
throw the flag after it but yeah we need to think about intentional grounding because there's so many times where you'll see a quarterback just spike the ball on the ground yeah and they're like well there was a receiver in the area yeah so i i'm i'm worried about the ramps i i do have uh someone who's actually worse off than me right now i don't know if you guys saw this floating around um this is from uh someone i don't know his full username on reddit but he said uh
Hello, fellow degenerates. As many of you are aware, two months ago I made a bet that I would chop off my humongous ding-dong if Notre Dame Fighting Irish won the college football playoffs. At the time, it seemed like a safe and comical bet as Notre Dame had only played against our nation's troops and we were looking like the next fraud alert.
However, due to flawed playoff seating and Carson Beck's weak pussy ass, I found myself in a situation where Notre Dame would be playing for a national championship next week, placing my dick right on the chopping block.
I just want to make it very clear that if Notre Dame wins the national championship, I will firmly stick to my word and receive a professional surgery that will safely remove my penis. The timeline for this, though, will have to be flexible as I do have to consider my wife, who would like to have at least two children.
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Chapter 6: What are the latest developments in sports betting?
Yeah.
Because your offensive line is so good. I hope so.
We ran for 300 yards against this. Okay, do it again. Yeah. Also, if Saquon Barkley does what the rest of the NFL wants him to do, the Eagles win that game 29-10 on Sunday. Yeah, that's true. And it's different. The scoreboard, well, I mean, that was a huge thing yesterday that everyone was talking about was why Saquon went down. Oh, yeah. Team player.
Yeah, he's a team player. Maybe AJ gets his nose out of the quote book and into the playbook.
No, did you see that? Yeah. Did you see that? They found another picture of him reading it in a game where he had 100 yards and 15 targets.
Actually, 97 yards. What?
All right, semantics, please.
I'm just telling you, it was 97 yards. Do you remember when we were in the year that the Texans were... I think they started 0-3 and then won 10 in a row or something. We were at a tailgate in Baton Rouge. And now we're at a tailgate in Baton Rouge, so this all comes under the idea that we were all hammered. But I talked to a doctor, and I asked him if he could...
surgically cut off my pinky a louisiana doctor and he was like legally no doctor will ever do that because you can't just be like i lost a bet cut off my pinky maybe go to like turkey or like tijuana or something they do the hair surgeries and also have doctors that will remove fingers yeah just take off a digit how about you just go over saudi arabia get caught stealing ah Gamble.
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Chapter 7: How does the new TikTok competitor affect social media?
Yeah, but also he's very much involved in the draft process too.
I think both sides should want... It's better if you go somewhere else.
Yeah. I see it as an Andy Reid situation.
Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. You ran him out of town. We did not run him out of town. And I don't think Steelers fans necessarily would be running Mike Tomlin out of town. But I think sometimes it's good for both parties to start new. The difference is with Andy Reid, they bottomed it out. True.
Right, so that's the problem with Tomlin is he's too good of a coach to ever bottom out. If the Steelers won three games this year, I think the situation is a lot easier.
Andy Reid also had the never can win the big one thing.
That's true.
And he had clock management issues.
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Chapter 8: What are the implications of China’s ban on TikTok?
You don't want to do that.
Like a hundred thousand dollars doesn't make me happy that I am in this. Also, if people wanted, I did have a bunch of people being like, dude, we don't actually want to see your pinky chopped off. Um, If anyone had any other ideas, I'm committed to, much like the Dick Chopoff guy.
You're too early on this.
But I'm committed to it.
I'm committed to it. I know, but let's see what happens this weekend.
Don't get nervous until the NFC Championship game. There's a lot of football out there. But Jalen Hurts is concussed. It's true. Do you think that when Dan Campbell shook hands with Kevin O'Connell at midfield and said, we'll see you in a couple weeks, do you think he met Cancun?
Uh-oh.
Nice PFT. Was that the Lions? Imagine if your pinky was riding on Daniels.
Yeah. Listen, that wouldn't... He's done crazy things. Like... Just get me late in the game with a one-score game, and I'd be like, yeah, this will work. Yep. Don't give away too much. That's part of my keys to the game. All right, so the other big news we had was the Cowboys are officially moving on from Mike McCarthy. Really kind of fucked him. Jerry Jones is a dick. He's an asshole.
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