Pardon My Take
Paul Bissonnette, NFL Christmas Day And The Bears New Low, Week 17 Picks And Preview + New Years Resolutions
Fri, 27 Dec 2024
The Bears hit a new low on a stand alone primetime game (00:00:00-00:09:26). We talk Christmas NFL and the Chiefs wrap up the 1 seed while the Ravens keep rolling (00:09:26-00:37:20). Week 17 picks and preview including our New Years Resolutions in place of the Titans/Jags game (00:37:20-01:37:38). TD Parlay and fantasy Fuccbois (01:37:38-01:44:57). Our good friend Paul Bissonnette joins the show to talk about his 1 on 7 with the Irish Travelers, hockey season, glass bang kid, and the Chiclets lives show in Chicago on Sunday (01:44:57-02:26:40). We finish with Fyre fest of the week (02:26:40-02:35:29).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 went wrong for the Bears in their last game?
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He took us around the league.
Yeah, around the league. Great interview with him. He's the best. We're going to talk some football. We have week 17 picks in preview. The Bears played on a standalone game. It was horrific. We're going to talk a little Christmas Day games, maybe a little NBA as well. And it's all brought to you by our friends at DraftKings. DraftKings has a special offer in honor of college football playoffs.
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Chapter 2: What are the Christmas Day NFL games and their significance?
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Today is Friday, December 27th, and I just want to apologize to America for what they had to watch with the Bears on their final game Primetime game of the year, the final Thursday night football game of the year. Holy shit. Was it horrific? Six to three Seahawks win. I just want this season to be over so, so badly. It's such a complete disaster and mess.
And it feels again like there's no way out. I'm still going to stay optimistic about Caleb, but he was bad. The whole team's bad. Yeah, defense. I thought the defense was going to give up a million yards after the first drive, and then they didn't. Yeah, Brian Poles did an interview before the game and said that some of the slow starts are some of the things that weren't fixed in training camp.
So he's blaming training camp in Week 17. fire this whole fucking organization to the sun. I'm so sick of it. I apologize again from the bottom of my heart that that is some of the worst football, like it's just a perfect fitting end to not only the bears playing a standalone games, but Thursday night football. Um,
The only thing I'm worried about is like Kirk Herbstreit, our good friend, he's going to get even more aggro after having to watch that. And like he's going to be in just a sour, sour mood next week after having to watch that. So I apologize to everyone. It was a horrific game. They're a horrific organization. They're a complete joke. George McCaskey should feel shame. He won't feel shame.
Fans rightfully were booing. Fans also got Thomas Brown, who can't figure out a clock to save his life. I think he might have been behind the Detroit collapse on Thanksgiving to go for it on fourth and one or fourth and five with like 215 left. I was like, fuck it, just punt it. I don't even care. Like, what does it matter? But it's.
This is the dumbest organization ever, and I apologize to everyone. Also, the Seahawks are bad. Can we just say that the Seahawks are really bad as well? Because, like, you shouldn't – 6-3 is not a game you should be in with the Bears.
Yeah, you shouldn't feel good about yourself if you're the Seahawks, for sure. And it's mean what Roger Goodell keeps doing to my good friend Big Cat and making them play primetime games, right? When you think you're done, oh, no, we've got another Bears primetime game. It's meaner what they're doing to Big Cat than what he did to Hank and Tom Brady of the Patriots.
Roger Goodell is a bigger dickhead for making Big Cat be exposed to the Bears in primetime all these times this year.
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Chapter 3: What are the predictions for Week 17 NFL matches?
That's almost a guarantee. He might not drive the price tag that Ben Johnson is driving right now because he's going to have a crazy bidding war for his services. But I feel like if you're going to try to save on price, just get Vrabel. He's going to be a great coach.
Yeah. I love Mike Vrabel. If Mike Vrabel is the coach of the Bears, I'll be very happy. I just want – I want them to once go and get the number one guy, the guy that everyone's like, holy shit, Ben Johnson. And it probably won't happen. I'll say it almost definitely won't happen, but at least go try. Don't say fucking Pete Carroll.
I just want to get to the playoffs so I don't have to think about the Bears. Like, I just don't want to even – they're not worth anything. They're – They should sell the team. You know what the McCaskies should do? They should sell the team for $100, what their family bought the team for, and be like, you know what? We did such a bad job. We're going to sell it for $100. Do a lottery.
You've been watching Yellowstone?
Someone gets to win the Bears.
Yeah. Yeah. Sell it to a Native American tribe for what they stole it for. I like that.
Yes. I have not been watching Yellowstone, but I'm in. Yeah. Okay. Should we talk some Christmas Day games? Some actual football. Yep. That actually matters. The Chiefs. 15-1, clinched the one seed. They now have like 24 days off.
I don't care what, you know, people can poke holes in the Chiefs and be like they're not impressive because they haven't scored over 30 points and they've had a couple close calls. They're going to win the Super Bowl again. Just accept it. If you don't accept it, I hope it doesn't happen. I want to see the Bills win the Super Bowl.
I want to see a new team get to the Super Bowl that hasn't been to the Super Bowl in a long time. You have to say in your head what's going to end up happening is the Chiefs now with the one seed. Their second round game is going to be a team that they will kill. and then they will play one game to get to the Super Bowl.
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Chapter 4: What are the New Year's resolutions discussed in the episode?
But when they need – like if you make a mistake against the Chiefs, the way they're set up and the guys that they have, they will always capitalize, and every single mistake is magnified by that much because you have Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid and Chris Jones on the other side who didn't even play against the Steelers.
They're just really good at football, and to discredit them is silly at this point.
And, oh, yeah, they got Hollywood Brown now.
Yeah, and Xavier Worthy, who we talked about, is starting to work his way in. He's going to be a big, big factor in the playoffs.
And a pretty rested, healthy Travis Kelsey. And, oh yeah, their coach is literally Santa Claus. So good luck with that.
It rocks. As for the Steelers... I'm so happy that I didn't go all the way in on the Steelers. I always was one foot in, one foot out because that team is a fraud. And they just did the same thing that they've done every single year where they win more games than you expect. And then at the end of the season, they start to fall off a cliff and they're limping into –
the playoffs here after losing to the Eagles, the Ravens and the chiefs who are all very good teams. Like if you ask me, are the Steelers better than 20 teams in the NFL? Yeah, they are, but they're nowhere near the top five teams in the NFL. And that's what you judge it on, especially in a town like Pittsburgh. They're just not to be taken seriously in the AFC playoffs.
Yeah. I mean, I think, I think they can beat the Texans. But, I mean, the Texans are bad too. Texans aren't looking so good, but I think they can beat the Texans. They might just be right outside that Chiefs, Ravens, Bills kind of.
They're not serious.
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Chapter 5: How did Paul Bissonnette fare with the Irish Travelers?
Chapter 6: What are the highlights from the latest Fantasy Football discussion?
Chapter 7: What challenges are the Steelers and Bengals facing?
Yeah. At the current price? Yeah, you just kind of wait them out. Maybe just do that. Maybe just, like, send them an email. Congratulations, your contract with the Pittsburgh Steelers has auto-renewed for the next 12 months. The same price of $1 million. Yeah, I don't think that you, like, pay him a shitload of money. But make him an insulting offer and see how insulted he is at it.
I do feel bad for, oh yeah, the Steelers also, memes just texted this, they have an issue on defense because basically it was like Cam Hayward, TJ Watt, I think Patrick Queen, they all have been alluding to there's one guy who's just not doing their job. It seems like people are thinking this might be Minka, but I don't know.
But Cam Hayward said, when 10 guys do their job, one guy doesn't, we are screwed. And there's been these, like, weird things, quotes, the last three weeks that it feels like there's a big problem on the defensive side in that locker room and someone's not pulling their weight. So, I mean, Tomlin's a guy who can figure it out, but I also – Steelers fans I feel bad for because –
Most of the NFL looks at the Steelers and they're like, I want that. Never going under 500. Mike Tomlin, I think, is still a very good coach. But the Steelers fans and the city of Pittsburgh, they are one of those franchises that judges on Super Bowls. So... I can say I want what the Steelers have, but then the Steelers are like, hey, we haven't won a playoff game in seven years.
This is bullshit. I think it was the fourth time in the past six years the Steelers have lost three consecutive games in December. So this is just kind of what they've been doing. So I feel bad for Steelers fans because for the majority of the NFL, we're jealous of what you have, but Steelers fans are like, no, no, this is not Steelers football. We are not a serious contender.
They kind of have been dealing with it, though. Like, yeah, they're not happy with it. Steelers fans aren't happy with it. But the organization is okay with it. They have to be.
The model. I don't know what. I just feel bad for Steelers fans because they're like, you can't. If you're a Steelers fan and you complain to a lot of people in the outside world, they're like, dude, shut up. You guys never go under 500. But their standard is different. So I understand their complaints.
And it's definitely Minka. That's the guy he's talking about.
Yeah, it's definitely Minka.
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Chapter 8: What are the implications for the playoff picture after Week 17?
Yeah. There was some satanic imagery. There was some people talking about... Jay-Z and Diddy. So that means she did a good job, I guess. If people watch music, a halftime music show, and then take to what's the app called, PFT?
The Everything app?
Yeah. They take to the Everything app, and they talk about how America is eroding and our country is going to shit off of a 10-minute musical performance at a halftime football game. That means they probably did a good job.
Yeah, I would agree. As somebody who watched it with the sound off, I think at one point she did that Texas Hold'em song, the one where it's like down, down, down. That's a great song. It probably sounded good if you listened to it.
There's another note from the halftime show. They were all wearing Cowboys gear.
What? Yeah, her album's called Cowboy Carter.
But it was like the same colors as the Dallas Cowboys.
You know what it was? It was probably Goodell sending his smoke signal that the Cowboys are going to play a triple header next year on Christmas Day after what LeBron said.
It was in Texas.
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