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The Ryen Russillo Podcast

Big Cat on the CFB Playoff Rankings and Fake Media Trades. Plus: the Problem With Zion.

The Ryen Russillo Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.813.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2021

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Russillo shares his reflections on the NBA through two weeks, including why the Miami Heat are for real; thoughts on NBA rookies Franz Wagner, Jalen Green, Josh Giddey, Evan Mobley, and more; and some concerns about Zion Williamson (0:48). Then Ryen talks to Big Cat of Barstool's 'Pardon My Take' about the most recent College Football Playoff rankings, why teams like Cincinnati have such a hard time cracking the top four, fake media trades, and more (21:40). Finally Ryen answers some listener-submitted Life Advice questions (1:08:50). Host: Ryen Russillo Guest: Big Cat Producers: Kyle Crichton and Steve Ceruti Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The press box is here to catch you up on the latest media stories.

0:03.4

Hosted by Brian Curtis and David Schumaker, these guys have the insight on the biggest

0:07.4

stories you care about. Check out the press box on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:22.9

Great show alert, great show alert. We're going to do NBA early season observations,

0:27.2

especially with some of the Brooks and how great they've been and really more importantly,

0:31.2

the Zion information that's now all starting to float out. It's been out there now. It's been

0:35.8

kept behind closed doors. I think for a while and I'm going to share my thoughts on it, what I've

0:41.2

heard. And then we're going to talk college football rankings with big cap from part of my take and

0:45.4

then of course life advice. So we got a fun one for you. I'm waking up this morning and I'm

0:50.2

getting ready to do my NBA stuff and a couple of other different interviews and I'm prepping here.

0:54.0

And then I get a call from sturdy being like, what do you want to do with this Aaron Rogers news?

0:58.2

Because I didn't even notice it. Honestly, I looked at Twitter for two seconds. I saw COVID

1:02.4

debates and then I went out and then I just like go back to make sure you get ready for your show.

1:07.5

And then we hear that Ian Rapp report reported that Aaron Rogers was not vaccinated for COVID.

1:12.3

And then he came back with a quote where he said he was immunized, which I thought, okay,

1:18.5

is Aaron Rogers the guy that would say he's immunized as a way to get around saying that he's

1:23.1

vaccinated. I'm like, he's capable of that. I would think so. But then he was so specific.

1:27.4

And essentially leading you to believe that he was vaccinated for COVID because he's tested positive

1:31.9

for COVID and that he also said he has teammates that are not vaccinated, but he didn't want to judge

1:37.2

them. So when he said that, I was like, well, clearly he's vaccinated or you wouldn't have said it that

1:40.9

way. I don't know what to do with it at this point. I will tell you, I think you know this for

1:44.4

less year and half. My favorite content isn't who's vaccinated. So I'm vaccinated. I have a

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