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NFL Hall of Famer Cris Carter

Wednesday, September 27, 201718 takes

The NCAA has a scandal and Rick Pitino may or may not be involved ( - ). We call the FBI hotline for NCAA violations to report a College Basketball crime we suspect is occurring at a certain prominent basically school that may or may not rhyme with Puke ( - ). Hot Seat/Cool Throne ( - ). NFL Hall of Famer Cris Carter joins us to talk about his new show First Things First, Randy Moss, what does elite really mean, and his conversation with Colin Kaepernick ( - ). Segments include Hurt or Injured for Darren Sproles. Sabermetrics for Michael Beasley using too much of his brain, uhh ya think for D-Wade on the Cavs and Guys on Chicks.

Recap

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Take Slip·Sep 27, 2017
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AAU coaches are the real victims in the NCAA scandal because players force them to profit off their likeness

The players are the ones who are victimizing the AAU coaches by putting them in a position to profit off of the players.

The NCAA rules eventually changed to allow NIL, effectively admitting the system was broken, but legally players were never 'victimizing' coaches.
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Take Slip·Sep 27, 2017
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Big Baller Brand will corner the market because they're the only shoe company not implicated in the bribery scandal

Big Baller Brand, by being the only shoe company that's not implicated, could have just cornered the market.

Big Baller Brand failed for many reasons, but not because of the FBI investigation. They did not corner the market.
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Take Slip·Sep 27, 2017
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Big CatBig Cat

Coach K cheated in the 2015 National Championship game by pressuring referees at halftime

In the 2015 National Championship game against Wisconsin, Wisconsin was dominating the game, and at halftime, Coach K went and talked to the refs, and they called 13 fouls against Wisconsin in the second half, even though they averaged 12 fouls a game, so he obviously was cheating.

While the foul disparity is a recorded stat, 'cheating' is a subjective interpretation of a coach working the officials.

Hot Seat Cool Throne

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Take Slip·Sep 27, 2017·Hot Seat/Cool Throne
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Big CatBig Cat

Bruce Arians is on the hot seat because he is losing his mind and making terrible challenges

Bruce Arians is officially actually on the hot seat because I don't think he has all his marbles... That challenge though, everyone was saying how bad it was, but it we correctly identified it as the football guy who gets so frustrated he just challenges a random play he knows he's gonna lose.

Arians retired at the end of the 2017 season (initially), so he was technically on his way out, though he later won a Super Bowl with Tampa.
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Take Slip·Sep 27, 2017·Hot Seat/Cool Throne
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HankHank

Khloe Kardashian lied about being pregnant just because she was jealous of Kylie's announcement

Khloe is super, super old and has been trying to get pregnant for a long time. I think she was so mad that Kylie announced she got pregnant, she just said she went too.

Khloe Kardashian was indeed pregnant and gave birth to True Thompson in April 2018.
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Take Slip·Sep 27, 2017·Hot Seat/Cool Throne
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NFL ratings are down because players aren't sleeping with Kardashians anymore

Do you think that's why NBA ratings are up and NFL is down because none of the NFL players are sleeping with the Kardashians?

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Ratings fluctuations are due to complex factors like streaming, cord-cutting, and political protests, not Kardashian dating habits.
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Take Slip·Sep 27, 2017·Hot Seat/Cool Throne
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Big CatBig Cat

Twitter's 280-character limit will ruin threads and make the app unbearable

Twitter has announced that the app that everyone loves and can't make any money has announced they're going to make everyone read more. So 280 characters... I might not be able to be on Twitter anymore. That's so much reading. They just doubled their product. And they just ruined threads.

Twitter successfully moved to 280 characters and it became the standard. Whether it 'ruined' the app is subjective, but Big Cat definitely stayed on the app.

Interview

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Take Slip·Sep 27, 2017
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I would take a catch challenge against any mortal because my hands are still elite

My hands are still very, very good. I'm willing to get in any type of catch challenge with any mortal.

This is unverified as no challenge took place, but Carter is a Hall of Famer for a reason.
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Take Slip·Sep 27, 2017
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Warren Moon is the best quarterback I ever played with and it's not even close

Warren Moon. It's not even close. Really? Warren Moon. We played two seasons together. I had 244 catches and 24 touchdowns in only two years.

This is Carter's personal opinion based on his own production with those QBs.
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Take Slip·Sep 27, 2017
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Cris CarterCris Carter

Randy Moss is the most talented wide receiver that has ever played the game

I knew he was probably the most talented wide receiver that's ever played the game. Because he was that rare. But all the other things in his football brain is what knew that, man, this kid is really, really special.

Moss is widely considered the most talented, if not the most productive (Rice).
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Take Slip·Sep 27, 2017
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Randy Moss will be a first-ballot Hall of Famer

I think he is [a first ballot Hall of Famer]. Yeah. He has the numbers. He had the type of impact on football that would warrant him going into the Hall of First Ballot.

Randy Moss was indeed elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame on his first ballot in 2018.
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Take Slip·Sep 27, 2017
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Cris CarterCris Carter

The NFL product suffers in September because the CBA limits padded practices

When they changed the collective bargain agreement... the player's like, okay, we want to practice less. All right, we'll grant you that. It's affected the product, all right? Because you can't have the few number of padded practices and train people how to play in the NFL. It's not going to work, so the product will suffer the first month of the season.

This is a recurring complaint from old-school players and analysts, but it correlates with the data of high turnover and penalty rates in early September.
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Take Slip·Sep 27, 2017
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Joe Flacco is not elite overall but has elite moments that elevate his team

Elite? Right on the border... In the pressure moments, can a guy rise up and elevate his team to the elite level? ... Joe Flacco not elite anymore but was once elite. No, no, no. Has elite moments. And raise his team to an elite level. Get it right.

This is a semantic debate about the word 'elite' and cannot be definitively proven.
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Take Slip·Sep 27, 2017
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Colin Kaepernick doesn't have the personality to effectively verbalize his cause

I just don't think he has the personality. I think that it's very, very rare that you see someone take such a prominent position on something that's really profound and not really necessarily have the personality that would allow them to be able to verbalize it... when you can't communicate with the general public of what your cause is and your reasoning, it's not going to endear people to what you're trying to say.

Kaepernick remained largely silent for years, which some argued hurt his public perception, while others argued it kept the focus on the issues.
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Take Slip·Sep 27, 2017
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Colin Kaepernick is a starting-level upgrade for 4 to 5 NFL teams right now

How many teams in the league right now do you think he would be an upgrade for at the starting quarterback position? Well, you can go through them. At least four or five. I mean, you don't have to leave New York. I mean, Josh McCown. I mean, my goodness.

Statistically, McCown and others were comparable to Kaepernick's final year, but Kaepernick never played in the NFL again to prove he was an 'upgrade'.
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Take Slip·Sep 27, 2017
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Every professional athlete needs a 'common sense guy' in their crew to keep them out of trouble

Out of your crew, have one guy that's got some common sense... you need a tech guy. You need a driver. One guy to do the troll accounts. Social media.

This is practical life advice for high-profile individuals to avoid legal or PR disasters.

Sabermetrics

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Take Slip·Sep 27, 2017·Sabermetrics
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Big CatBig Cat

Michael Beasley knows too much and is officially 'too woke'

Michael Beasley, I'm following him officially in the category of knows too much... We finally figured out 12% is the point where you reach too woke.

Beasley's comments were widely mocked as pseudoscience. Big Cat is leaning into the comedy of it.

Uhhh Ya Think

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Take Slip·Sep 27, 2017·Uhhh Ya Think
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Derrick Rose and Dwyane Wade will turn into a pile of dust if they collide in practice

I would say, man, I'm really looking forward to those practices where Derrick Rose and Dwyane Wade just, like, accidentally run into each other and turn into a pile of dust.

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Rose and Wade did struggle with various issues and the Cavs experiment with that roster was short-lived.