"Tom Brady gamed his initial Patriots combine tests to make his late-career improvement look better" — Big Cat

Take Slip·Jan 18, 2017·Hmm

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Tom Brady gamed his initial Patriots combine tests to make his late-career improvement look better

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... 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.

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This is a subjective theory on performance metrics that can't be definitively proven.

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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.

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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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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.

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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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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.

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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.