Frank Walks has quietly become one of Barstool's best get-people-talking formats. Strap a mic on Frank the Tank, hit the pavement with a guest, and let the conversation wander somewhere real. The newest episode dropped with Brady Quinn as the guest, and it wandered somewhere pretty pointed.
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Quinn didn't hold back. Walking and talking with Frank, he singled out Brandon Walker as the one guy at Barstool who's actually done something for him — and made a point of naming who hasn't. “Not Portnoy's cheap ass, not Big Cat,” he said, per the clip going around. That's not a small jab. Dave Portnoy is the founder of the company and Big Cat is arguably its biggest star, and Quinn skipped both of them to credit Walker by name.
Footage backing up the quote shows Brandon Walker with a fan on a city sidewalk as Quinn explains why Walker's the one who's actually come through for him.
Quinn's history with Barstool goes back to his post-playing days as a media guy — he spent time as an NFL analyst before landing in the Barstool orbit, and he's shown up on shows with Frank before, going back to appearances alongside Tom Brady and Peyton Manning on Frank the Tank content. So this isn't some rando guest taking a cheap shot for clout. It's someone with real reps in the building drawing a clear line between who's actually been in his corner and who hasn't.
The episode wasn't just a Walker tribute, either. Quinn and Frank also got into how NFL teams handle young quarterbacks these days — specifically how the league doesn't really let guys sit, learn, and develop the way it used to. Given Quinn's own path as a former first-round pick who bounced around the league before finding a second act in media, that's not a throwaway topic for him. It's a subject he's lived.
Quinn and Frank walk and talk through why modern NFL teams no longer give quarterbacks the runway to develop.
Whether the Portnoy/Big Cat dig turns into anything more than a passing line on a walking podcast remains to be seen — Barstool personalities rib each other constantly and most of it stays exactly where it started. But naming names on camera, unprompted, tends to get noticed internally. Worth watching if either Portnoy or Big Cat responds, and whether Walker himself weighs in on getting the compliment.