Picking Nits
Steph's engineering plans on a B average; his rudimentary drawings; no Pittsburgh accents; no big speech from the brother; the sudden late pregnancy; empty flasks; Steph and Brian not playing offense; Nickerson coaching defensive backs; the fourth-down framing
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- Steph's plan to be an electric engineer on a B average at an outskirts-of-Pittsburgh high school is never backed up, and his drawings on the wall, like the underwater dome, are rudimentary, terrible engineering.
- There are no Pittsburgh accents, called the best decision because the accents would be mocked, as with Chris Helmsworth (as transcribed) in Black Hat.
- The brother never gets a big speech to Steph like Chucky's to Will in Goodwill Hunting (as transcribed); the actor, lead of Robot Jocks (as transcribed), only gets a laid-off-today scene, and the speech maybe got cut.
- Chris Penn's girlfriend is super pregnant, eight and a half months, a month after the doctor confirms it.
- At the end after the wedding, the flasks clearly hold not a single drop of liquid.
- Earlier, the biggest nitpick is that it is preposterous neither Steph nor Brian Riley plays offense on a team of 37 guys.
- Tiny nitpicks: Nickerson seems best at coaching the defensive line rather than the defensive backs, and the fourth-down shot should have gone wider to show Chris Penn's character coming in with the second hit.