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Recap Of LSU/Bama Weekend, NFL Week 9, And Merril Hoge

Monday, November 5, 201813 takes

Week 9 fastest 2 minutes ( - ). Recap of our weekend in Baton Rouge. Death Valley, seeing Coach O, hanging out with Vince Vaughn on the sidelines and Alabama is really fucking good ( - ). NFL Week 9 recap, Big Ben died, Rams vs Saints was awesome, Nathan Peterman is sad, Texans are a wagon, and the Done Chain ( - ). Football Guy of the Week including Dana Holgorsen and Jeremy Pruitt disavowing his entire childhood ( - ). Who's back of the week ( - ). Former NFL Player and studio Analyst Merril Hoge joins the show to talk about his new book on CTE, what the NFL has done right and what it needs to do better ( - ). Segments include Embrace Debate Bob Ryan did a tweet, Way to stay relevant baseball, Hank hot in the streets, and a Stay Woke for Space Jam 2.

Recap

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Take Slip·Nov 5, 2018
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Clemson is the only team with a chance to beat Alabama this year

The only team I can see maybe beating Alabama is possibly Clemson. But I only say that... because I'm an idiot, and I know Clemson and Alabama haven't played any common opponents, I don't think.

Clemson indeed beat Alabama 44-16 in the National Championship game later that season.
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Take Slip·Nov 5, 2018
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Big CatBig Cat

Alabama will finish 2018 undefeated and blow everyone out

Everyone in their record books when Alabama finishes an undefeated season and shit kicks everyone. And we'll be like, wait, you could get Alabama at minus 14 in a game in 2018? And you'd be like, that was really stupid. Why didn't we put a billion dollars on it?

Alabama went undefeated in the regular season but lost to Clemson in the National Championship.
Win
Take Slip·Nov 5, 2018
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Big CatBig Cat

The loss to the Saints was a statement loss for the Rams that showed championship resolve

I think that was a statement loss for the Rams. Okay. Because they basically had everything go wrong in the first half... And the way they came out in the second half, even though they didn't win the game, that was championship resolve.

The Rams went on to represent the NFC in the Super Bowl that year.
Win
Take Slip·Nov 5, 2018
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Big CatBig Cat

Literally anyone could play quarterback better than Nathan Peterman

I am starting to feel like this is actually cruel that they keep putting [Peterman] out there. Like, Sean McDermott, what are you doing? You can find anyone, basically anyone, and I mean anyone, that could play quarterback better than Nathan Peterman.

Peterman's career stats are historically poor, supporting the sentiment that almost any other NFL-level QB was a better option.
Push
Take Slip·Nov 5, 2018
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Sam Darnold is bad and investors should sell the stock

Sam Darnold. Trash. He's bad. Sell the stock.

Darnold's tenure with the Jets was largely considered a failure, though he revived his career years later.
Loss
Take Slip·Nov 5, 2018
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The Redskins will win the NFC East because the rest of the division sucks

Redskins NFC [East winners] since like week two... and it's not because I think that they're that good of a team. I think the division sucks.

The Cowboys won the NFC East in 2018. The Redskins finished 7-9.
Win
Take Slip·Nov 5, 2018
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Big CatBig Cat

The Eagles will eventually shake off their Super Bowl hangover and wake up

I just think the Eagles are going to come on because that's just, they feel get over their Super Bowl hangover. They're going to get over it. They're going to finally wake up.

The Eagles did 'wake up' and won their final three games to secure a wild card spot and then won a playoff game (Double Doink).
Void
Take Slip·Nov 5, 2018
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Big CatBig Cat

Gold Glove is the dumbest award in sports

Gold Glove is the dumbest reward possible. And I'm not saying that just because Javi Baez didn't win one he should have. It's still the dumbest reward. ... I feel like if you get one gold glove you just end up getting gold gloves for life.

The award is inherently subjective and based on voting, so its 'dumbness' cannot be proven or disproven.

Who Is Back

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Take Slip·Nov 5, 2018·Who's Back
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LeBron James' vote of confidence for Luke Walton is a kiss of death

LeBron getting coaches fired... So he gave Luke Walton a vote of confidence. So you know what that means... Suspect kiss of death. ... You know what that means when LeBron says, no, I like Luke Walton. Yeah, you're done.

Luke Walton was fired by the Lakers at the end of the 2018-2019 season.

Interview

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Take Slip·Nov 5, 2018
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Merril HogeMerril Hoge

Science has not proven what causes CTE or what CTE causes

It probably sparked the book more than anything is when i kept hearing this from the experts... is a pattern we don't know what causes it and we don't know what it causes we have cases where people have played football people who've played sports and people have not played sports and not had concussions and not had history of head trauma.

While research continues, the scientific consensus (CDC, Mayo Clinic) overwhelmingly links repeated head impacts to CTE, making Hoge's claim highly contrarian.
Void
Take Slip·Nov 5, 2018
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Merril HogeMerril Hoge

There is a coordinated plot to destroy the game of football

I don't think there's any question there is [a plot]. When you think about... how many sports do you know where there's legislation to try to ban a particular sport, tackle football? Do you know of any other sport?

This is highly subjective and leans into conspiracy territory, though legislative efforts against youth tackle football are factual.
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Take Slip·Nov 5, 2018
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Merril HogeMerril Hoge

Subconcussion is not a scientific term and its use is misleading

You just used it as if it's common knowledge... You used the word subconcussion. They haven't even gone through the proper science steps to qualify that as science. ... It's not scientific and so the point is when you don't do the steps of science... there's so many science papers that talk about the abuse of that word, how it's misleading.

The term is widely used in medical literature (e.g. Cleveland Clinic) to describe head impacts that don't result in clinical concussion symptoms but may cause damage, contradicting Hoge.

Stay Woke

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Take Slip·Nov 5, 2018·Stay Woke
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Space Jam 2 is a fake movie used by LeBron to launder money to potential free agents

Couldnt you just offer [a superstar] a role in Space Jam 2 and through your production company pay him, I don't know, $30 million a year? Kevin Durant takes the veteran minimum on the books and... Now, I took it a step further than that because this movie has been delayed and delayed... I'm not sure that it's a real movie. ... He's got a fake movie. Follow the checks. Follow the money.

Space Jam: A New Legacy was a real movie released in 2021. There is no evidence of it being a salary cap evasion scheme.