"Any future heroic act by JJ Watt will be a staged PR stunt" — Big Cat

Take Slip·Apr 20, 2016

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Any future heroic act by JJ Watt will be a staged PR stunt

I wouldn't rule out J.J. Watt staging, saving some child from a burning building or something. If you hear a story in the next month that J.J. Watt ran into a burning warehouse and there were children and kittens and puppies and he saved them all, just be on the lookout for that. ... I want to be a pre-truther to anything heroic that J.J. Watt does in the next six months.

Hot Take Football Hot Subjective

The take is a cynical interpretation of character; whether an act is 'staged' is subjective.

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Take Slip·Apr 20, 2016

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PFT Commenter

JJ Watt will get a DUI within six months if he keeps up his current public persona

He either comes on Pardon My Take and doesn't interview anybody and is actually real for a little bit... or two, he keeps up the facade, and then six months later, he gets a DUI, and then it's all just completely busted. ... If you keep this up, and then you get a DUI, guess what? You're screwed.

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JJ Watt did not get a DUI in the six months following this episode.

Void

Take Slip·Apr 20, 2016

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PFT Commenter

Jon Jones' claim of marijuana addiction is a PR move because it's not a real addiction

Jon Bones Jones today came out and said like, yeah, I used to smoke a lot of weed and now I don't anymore. And so now I'm back on the straight and narrow. ... That's just not really an addiction. They're not going to be mad at you. Like that's just... just not really an addiction.

Opinion Boxing/MMA Medium Subjective

The medical and societal definition of addiction is subjective and variable.

Loss

Take Slip·Apr 20, 2016

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Big Cat

Conor McGregor's retirement is likely a cover for a steroid issue

I don't think people assume steroids enough anymore. And now this is going to be a hot take, but just follow me for a minute. Conor McGregor, he retired because he did steroids, right? Why isn't anyone saying that?

Hot Take Boxing/MMA HotSarcastic

There was never any evidence that McGregor's brief 2016 retirement was due to a failed steroid test; it was famously a dispute over media obligations.