Pardon My Take
Combine Week, Bears HC Ben Johnson, Max Is Back From Vacation And Joel Embiid Is Extremely Injured Plus Guys On Chicks
Wed, 26 Feb 2025
We’re live from Indy for the Combine and we talk football stories including Stafford’s next contract (00:00:00-00:10:38), packers trying to ban the tush push and Max is back from vacation (00:10:38-00:17:21). Hot Seat Cool Throne with an update on the bonk list and more plan crashes freaking Hank out (00:17:21-00:44:21). Bears Head Coach Ben Johnson joins the show to talk about taking the Bears job, Caleb Williams, calling plays, how much he squats, coding and tons more (00:44:21-01:19:24). We finish with Guys on Chicks (01:19:24-01:33:23).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 football stories are discussed at the Combine?
On today's part of my take, we have Chicago Bears head coach Ben Johnson. We are live from the Combine in Indy. We're going to do Hot Seat Cool Throw. Max is back from his fitness vacation. Great to have Max back.
Thanks, Hank. Thank you, Hank.
Talk a little combine.
Can you talk with a Canadian accent from now on?
Yeah.
Seriously.
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Chapter 2: What is the controversy around the tush push?
Voted on to be banned, led by the Packers. An unnamed team has requested that the NFL change the tush-push rule. That unnamed team is the Green Bay Packers.
The Green Bay Packers are being salty bitches about it.
They're being salty about it. And for the record, I'm against banning the tush-push. This is the Ravens. It's John Harbaugh all over again.
Yeah. You could stop the tush push. You could try to stop it, yeah. You could also stop them on first, second, or third down.
Or you could just try jumping over the line of scrimmage infinity times in a row to try to stop it. Keep the tush push, but also allow teams to do that.
I also feel like the Bills in the AFC Championship game, there's a pretty good evidence against banning the touchdown.
Because it just doesn't work. The weird part about it is the Bills were the other team besides the Eagles that used that play the most this season. And it worked for them until the playoffs.
Until it didn't.
And then it didn't work. And now Sean McDermott is like, yeah, I think I'm in favor of banning the play now.
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Chapter 3: Where might Matthew Stafford and other quarterbacks end up?
Do it, dude. So as it stands right now, Kirk Cousins, they've said that he's not going to be traded or anything. He's going to be a $50 million backup on the Falcons. On the Falcons. Congratulations to Kirk Cousins. What a move. $100 million guaranteed, signed last offseason. Then they ended up drafting his replacement. Then he got hurt, allegedly. Then Penix just took his job.
That's incredible.
$100 million does not work. That's the American dream. But the Falcons also said that they were never informed of any injury from Kirk Cousins. What do you mean? So after the season was over... Kirk's camp let it leak out there. Yeah, it was dealing with a bunch of like shoulder, elbow, things like that. The Falcons are like, this is the first we've heard of it.
I think it was just that he's old and had an Achilles injury. He might be old. And that's, it's hard to come. I mean, we're talking about two guys, Aaron Rodgers and Kirk Cousins, who are both old and had an Achilles injury and they weren't totally themselves afterwards. Aaron Rodgers, top five quarterback. That's true. Top five quarterback for sure.
Also, Miles Garrett, the Browns have no plan on trading him, which I feel like they have to say. They just have to go through the motions of saying this, and then someone's going to make them an offer they can't refuse, and then they'll trade him. It sounds like maybe the birds. Yeah. We also had the GM for the Ravens said that Justin Tucker allegations are concerning.
I'd agree. If they're real, that is concerning. They're waiting for the facts to come out. That's concerning. So if true that he allegedly... Nothing on the Steve Smith ban thing? No, that's not concerning.
No statement?
No, I don't think so. I think they probably were like, listen to part of my take on Monday. They covered it for 45 minutes. More than enough on it.
Yeah, I mean, in a perverse way, this is probably the best team that the Steve Smith thing could have happened to because they've got bigger fish to fry out there.
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Chapter 4: How is Joel Embiid's injury affecting his career?
Okay.
I would, yeah. I would go double. I would go double black diamond. Double black diamond?
Oh, PFT, you don't ski. I don't know. So you wouldn't even think about it. I don't know how to do that. I don't know how to do that. Sounds like he wants Miles Garrett more than you.
I mean, this is what was concerning me about the report. It was that the commanders are looking to make a strong offer, but if they do, the Eagles are set to make an offer that he can't refuse. Ooh, that's big Dom. It sounds like big Dom is like, no, I'm going to leave a horse head in your head.
That's Big Dom.
This is why I'm terrified of having Big Dom in the division because he can make trades like that happen.
Yeah. Okay, do we miss any other stories? Anything else going on? Combine week? Anything important? I don't think so. We got Hot Seat Cool thrown, then Ben Johnson, then guys on chicks. Combine week. Memes is getting memes. I think memes is getting a little extra zesty right now because he knows he's got Rossini coming up tomorrow. He's fired up. He's getting his reps in.
Although he did apparently see Rossini today and didn't say anything. Just kind of swallowed his mic. Oh, no. Wow.
But he probably tweeted something like 10 minutes later.
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Chapter 5: What updates are there on Max's vacation and fitness?
They get the little whisk thing with eggs. They whisk it.
You froth it.
And then you have to water it and then put it in sunlight and then boom, baby. It's pretty cool.
But yeah, so Bonnie Blue, liar. Yeah. Well, I guess Cool Throne, Paul Bissonnette. Yeah. He can still munch that bin.
Yeah. Although I think maybe hot seat Paul Bissonnette because there was a chance he was going to maybe be a father. He would have been the dad who stepped up.
Yeah, exactly. All right. My Cool Throne is Gronk. Yes. Yes. Hank, did you hear about this? I did. So there was a report today amongst the Denver media that Rob Gronkowski is considering a return to the NFL and that he would like to potentially play for the Denver Broncos. Wow.
0.0.
The report from some random account, it was the facts that were going off of it was that Gronk worked with Sean Payton last year. or on Fox the year before, and he likes Bo Nix.
Okay. Well, I think there was a little bit more to it than that, Hank. Do tell. Why would that report just come out? They've worked together way in the past. Is there more that I missed? League sources tell me four-time Super Bowl champion Rob Gronkowski is considering a return to the NFL. He worked with Sean Payton Fox, and I'm told he loves Denver. You left that part out. You left that part out.
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Chapter 6: What are the latest NFL news and rumors?
Oh, yeah. No, that's not it. No. You wanted me to...
Oh, PFT's Mike Pence. Like, you assume that if Max is talking to female co-workers.
You wanted me, after the Eagles fan was disrespectful to the women, you wanted me to go up to the women of Barstool and say something nice. Oh, yeah. Say something nice but respectful. But you just assumed everything was going to be sexual.
No, say something nice but respectful.
Yeah, that's right.
I just told all of them they're really good at their job. That's a weak, weak bonk list, Hank. Yeah, your bonk list sucks, Hank.
I started the bonk list, like, myself. I know. It was my passion project. It was not an assignment. People love it. People want it.
People want it. Okay. Let's do our interview with Ben Johnson. Before we do that, we've got a couple of ads.
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