Picking Nits
The owner's impossible trip to Cleveland; Sonny firing his father; the eight-year $100 playbook trick; silent conference calls; no draft value chart; no Goodell boos; David Putney missing at the end; the blog's wrong conference name; the Callahan printout errors; Sonny missing the will reading
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- The owner getting from the draft to Cleveland in about 45 minutes is impossible; Jeff Chow initially argued for a helicopter-to-plane route but agreed it was not possible.
- Midtown traffic, 466 miles by the co-host's husband's math, a helipad and a flight add up to at least two hours 15 minutes, versus about 40 minutes across picks two through five; a FaceTime from the plane is suggested.
- Sonny firing his own father is glossed over; the co-host had it as an unanswerable question, noting Barb asked him to keep Coach from dying on TV, and compares it to Sierra voting out her mother on Survivor.
- The $100 playbook trick has apparently been used for eight years without agents catching on.
- Calls between two crowded war rooms are implausibly silent, a point sharpened in the Zoom era.
- In 2014 teams had draft value charts, yet no one checks the value of three seconds for a first; Sonny acting alone makes advice hard.
- The co-host's top nit is the lack of boos for the commissioner; David Putney is missing from the final huddle despite being central to the trade, joked as waived after the third preseason game.
- Bo's conquest blog is named for the wrong conference instead of the Big Ten, where Wisconsin plays.
- Callahan's printout looks made in Microsoft Word, lists his height as 6-4 and 6-3, and has a birth year of 88.
- Sonny not being at his father's will reading is very strange; the rest of the nits are skipped.