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3X Pro Bowler Shawne Merriman

Wednesday, January 18, 201711 takes

NFL mid week drama ( -). NBA season is heating up with Cavs/Warriors, Melo trade rumors, and Joel Embiid ( - ). In honor of President Obama's Pardons, Pardon My misTake where we Pardon parts of our show ( - ). Hot Seat/Cool Throne ( - ). Former San Diego Charger and 3X Pro Bowl Winner Shawne Merriman joins the show to talk about the Chargers move to LA, what it was like to sack Tom Brady and Ben Rothlisberger, and whether or not he will sue us for our various business ideas that "borrow" the Lights Out name ( - ) . Segments include Hmmmm, Trouble in Paradise, Hurt or Injured, Embrace Debate do you button your top button, Uhhh Ya Think, Bad Radio watching Giannis dunks, and our weekly Bachelor Talk from guys that don't actually watch the Bachelor.

Recap

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Take Slip·Jan 18, 2017
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Bill Belichick intentionally messes up social media app names to mess with the media

This is the second time that Belichick has intentionally messed up two apps. I think that Belichick knows a lot more about social media than he's letting on... Belichick pretends to not know what Facebook is... he's just absolutely fucking with the media and just putting on this show like, oh, I don't know what any of this is. And meanwhile, he goes out behind the curtain. He's got five cell phones and he immediately checks all his players' accounts.

Belichick continued this 'bit' for years, consistently misnaming platforms like 'Instachat,' supporting the theory that it's a deliberate part of his persona.
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Take Slip·Jan 18, 2017
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Aaron Rodgers is trying to 'cuck' Brett Favre's legacy

Uncoachable. He's now trying to cuck Brett Favre's legacy like a kid just running around back there. Brett Favre was the ultimate draw something up in the dirt. It's like the last thing that Brett Favre has. He was an old school gunslinger. Just go out there and I'll hit you. And now Aaron Rodgers is taking that from him.

Rodgers has often been compared to Favre in this regard, though he generally played with much higher efficiency and fewer turnovers, eventually surpassing most of Favre's franchise records.
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Take Slip·Jan 18, 2017
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LeBron James pretends he doesn't care about the Warriors, but he cares deeply

LeBron said, no, we're not rivals. He basically just said, I don't want to talk about that. I don't care about the Warriors. They can do their thing. Meanwhile, I'm pretty sure LeBron made them put up a big poster right outside their locker room when they went to Cleveland earlier in the year, like the block and all that stuff. So classic LeBron. He's just pretending like he doesn't care, even though he cares deeply.

LeBron's rivalry with the Warriors during the 2010s is widely considered one of the greatest in NBA history, confirming he likely cared significantly more than he admitted.
Loss
Take Slip·Jan 18, 2017
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Carmelo Anthony's destiny is to be carried to a title by LeBron James

Melo's destiny is to have LeBron carry him to a title. That really is his destiny.

Carmelo Anthony eventually joined LeBron James on the Lakers in 2021-22 in an attempt to win a championship, though they were unsuccessful. He never won a title.

Hot Seat Cool Throne

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Take Slip·Jan 18, 2017·Hot Seat/Cool Throne
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Pete Carroll is a cheater for lying on injury reports

My hot seat is Pete Carroll, coach of the Seattle Cheahawks. Got caught cheating... by lying about his injury report saying Richard Sherman, he had an injury the whole season, and he basically lied on the injury report every single week... his crime was lying and cheating.

The NFL did investigate the Seahawks for failing to disclose Richard Sherman's MCL injury, though it is usually viewed as gamesmanship rather than outright cheating on the level of Deflategate.

Interview

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Take Slip·Jan 18, 2017
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The Steelers must start fast and take the Foxborough crowd out of the game to beat the Patriots

For one, it's going to be tough. It's one of the toughest environments I had a chance of playing throughout my career... they need to jump out fast. I mean, the first quarter or two, take the win out of the crowd. Once that happens, now they're on the playing field.

The Steelers did not start fast; they were trailing 17-6 at halftime and lost 36-17. The Patriots dominated from the start.
Loss
Take Slip·Jan 18, 2017
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I am officially unretired and would return to the NFL if a contender offered $10 million

If I had a good opportunity I want to play I want to play with a team that I have an opportunity to go win a championship because that's the only part of my career that is missing you know I'm missing the ring so if I had an opportunity to get a ring of course I go back in a second.

Merriman never returned to the NFL after this statement.
Win
Take Slip·Jan 18, 2017
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Los Angeles is not ready to support two NFL teams

I don't think L.A. is ready for two football teams. They're still trying to get their feet on their own with the Rams, even though they didn't play well this last year... they don't show up until halftime.

This has been a persistent narrative, with the Chargers struggling to build a fan base in LA for years, often playing in stadiums filled with opposing fans.
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Take Slip·Jan 18, 2017
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Tito Ortiz will beat Chael Sonnen in their Bellator 170 fight

I'm going with Tito. Only because it's his last one, and I just know how he feels about his legacy, and he doesn't want to go out and lose it. So by any means, he's going to do whatever he can to win this fight... I'm taking Tito at the end.

Tito Ortiz defeated Chael Sonnen via rear-naked choke in the first round on January 21, 2017.

Hmm

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Take Slip·Jan 18, 2017·Hmm
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Tom Brady gamed his combine/strength tests or the Patriots are lying about his scores improving with age

The damnest thing is happening with Brady. In each of the past three years, he improved his test scores in every category... [Hmm]. I used to do that when I did CrossFit... how you did one round, you had to beat it the next round. So you would just do really, really bad the first one. And then just kind of coast the rest. So maybe that's what Brady's doing.

While Brady's 'TB12 method' claimed longevity, it is physiologically rare for an athlete to improve raw speed/agility scores at 39 vs 29, making Big Cat's skepticism grounded.

Bachelor Talk

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Take Slip·Jan 18, 2017·Bachelor Talk
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The contestants on The Bachelor who cried over the Backstreet Boys were faking it

I'm calling bullshit on this. If there's some girls, maybe some girls, like, 1994, 1995 born, they were, like, five years old when Backstreet Boys were big... I feel like that was a try-hard move to start crying for that because they probably don't remember them, right?

It's a common criticism of reality TV that reactions are staged, and his math regarding the age of the contestants versus the height of the boy band's fame is largely accurate.