00:00You want to go!
00:07Yes!
00:08Take us through the last couple possessions.
00:11A legal screen.
00:12I want AJ Brown packing his bags and I want him somewhere else that is not here.
00:20Ben Johnson's Chicago Bears came back and pulled off an historic win against the Green Bay Packers.
00:27Bear down his back, baby!
00:29And it re-ignited the Bears-Packers rivalry.
00:33Fires to the end zone!
00:35And it is broken up!
00:37The Bears win it!
00:51There's absolutely no love between these two franchises.
00:55This is what rivalries are made of!
00:57That's it!
00:59And if you've been paying attention, there's no love between head coach Ben Johnson and Packers head coach Matt LaFleur.
01:07A cursory handshake, no love lost between these two guys.
01:11And oh shit!
01:13Ben absolutely rocks him and now he feeds the Green Bay assistant a knuckle sandwich!
01:17Holy crap!
01:19Ben Johnson hates the fucking Packers!
01:21And Ben let not only his team, but the world saw that as well.
01:25So that sparked college basketball legend Dick Vitale to tweet that he didn't really like Ben Johnson's post-game antics and he tweeted about the bad sportsmanship.
01:41Hey Dick, this is what rivalries are all about baby!
01:45There's no metric to record what is and what isn't good sportsmanship.
01:49What you don't like, someone else might love.
01:53And you better get Ben!
01:54You better get Ben!
01:55Three, one, two, three!
01:56Ben!
01:57This moment between a local journalist in Jacksonville and Jags head coach Liam Cohen sparked some of the biggest takes and tweets on the debate on the code of ethics in sports journalism and the negativity versus positivity in sports reporting.
02:14Congratulations on your success, young man.
02:17You hold your head up, alright?
02:18You guys have had a most magnificent season.
02:21You did a great job out there today.
02:22Appreciate it.
02:23So you just hold your head up, okay?
02:25Duvall, you the one, alright?
02:26Thank you, man.
02:27You keep it going.
02:28We got another season, okay?
02:29I appreciate it.
02:30Take care and much continued success to you and the entire team.
02:32Thank you, man.
02:33ESPN's Adam Schefter tweeted about it, called it awesome, which then set off his colleague,
02:38Brooke Pryor, who's a Steelers beat writer, and some dude named Mark Long about the proper ethics on being a journalist and press conference behavior.
02:47And because of that, my man Pat McAfee went off.
02:51Everybody in the sports journalism world say, this is out of line.
02:56This.
02:58This.
02:59Unbelievable.
03:00Can't do it.
03:01Can't have it.
03:02What are we doing here?
03:03We got deadlines.
03:04What's your deadline?
03:05A tweet?
03:06It's like, what a weird thing to come out publicly and say, this is disgusting.
03:11Who do you think you are?
03:13This then ripped off the band-aid to a bigger issue and it set off the civil war between sports journalists, athlete reporters, and sports opinionists.
03:24Insults, hot takes, clap backs, they all fill my timelines.
03:28But shout out to Dan Patrick to being the voice of reason when he said this.
03:33I think this reporter was very compassionate and it was a tough loss.
03:38And she said it and she's been there in the community for over 30 years.
03:42Okay.
03:43It's not what we should be doing, but it's not the end of the world.
03:48He's right.
03:49The entire thing has been blown out of proportion and it all started with the tweet from Brooke Pryor acting like some sort of sports Karen over a 20 second exchange.
04:00And you know what?
04:01I'm going to go out and say it.
04:02Was Lynn Jones wrong for consoling Coach Cohen for 20 seconds?
04:07Technically, yes.
04:09Beat writers are not supposed to be consoling any player or any coach.
04:13All she had to do was attach a question to the end of that statement and bam, no problemo.
04:19Just ask the question for the sake of ethics.
04:22But with all of the BS and negativity in sports media, sports reporting, and sports journalism.
04:29You want them to attack downhill?
04:31Is that your, like what do you know about attacking downhill in the run game?
04:34You don't know.
04:35All right.
04:36That's right.
04:37This is what you're calling out.
04:38It's going to be all right.
04:39Keep your head up.
04:40All right.
04:41Young men.
04:42But let's get into the quick takes because Stephen A. Smith had his take and his advice
04:47for Oregon quarterback Dante Moore about staying in school to avoid being drafted by the Jets.
04:53Damn it.
04:54I'd go back to college before I played for the Jets.
04:57They are a football atrocity.
05:00They are awful.
05:01I mean straight garbage.
05:03Are you kidding me, Stephen A?
05:05Did you not see how bad this kid was or played against Indiana in the semifinal game?
05:10The running back.
05:11The quick pass is intercepted.
05:12It's going to be run in for an Indiana touchdown.
05:17With all of the raw quarterbacks with potential that the Jets have drafted and ruined, the
05:22man will fit right in.
05:24I'll be coming back to Oregon for one more year and being able to play for the Oregon Ducks and, you know, of course, reach our goal and be national champions.
05:31Giannis trade deadlines right around the corner and Milwaukee just lost their 18th game in their past 27.
05:38Bucks fans had the nerve to boo the team.
05:40The largest halftime deficit this year.
05:44And how did Giannis respond?
05:47He booed back.
05:48Count the bucket.
05:51A tough two to get.
05:55When I get booed, I booed back.
05:57I've never been a part of something like that before and I don't think it's fair.
06:00Oh, he understands the boos and what they mean.
06:03Now, understand him when he says,
06:06That's Greek for, I'm up out of here.
06:09When people don't believe in me, I don't tend to be with them.
06:12I tend to be against them.
06:13But let's go to Boston where Joe Mazula is channeling his inner Marshawn Lynch.
06:18Hey, I'm just here so I don't get fined.
06:20Joe, give yourselves a chance to win, I guess.
06:22Take us through the last couple of sessions.
06:25Illegal screen.
06:27What'd you say?
06:28Illegal screen.
06:30Illegal screen.
06:32Illegal screen.
06:35What fell apart to get you guys behind?
06:40And then how were you able to get that?
06:42Illegal screen.
06:44Oh, this is perfect.
06:45Forget I'm just here so I don't get fined.
06:48From here on out, that is going to be the new default answer to anything I'm not giving my time or energy to.
06:55I get cut off on the road.
06:56Illegal screen.
06:57Wifey going through your phone and ask who's Cheryl.
07:00Illegal screen.
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07:31Nick Sirianni has five consecutive winning seasons, five playoff appearances, two NFC
07:37championship game trips, a Super Bowl, and an overall regular season of 59 and 26.
07:44He's the first Eagles coach with five straight winning seasons to start his tenure, and this
07:49guy wants him out, and we want Lynn Jones to give up her credentials for bad takes.
07:54Didn't do a good enough job coaching, didn't do a good enough job executing.
07:57And that takes us to our final takes, because I hate to say this, but Eagles fans low-key
08:03have the right to crash out after the loss, because A.J. Brown crashed out all season for
08:09not getting the ball, and then does this when it counted.
08:13Picked up, hurts, A.J. Brown, he drops it!
08:17Oh my goodness!
08:19Diva behavior didn't stop there.
08:21He then skipped out on the media availability postgame, and Nick Sirianni, of all people,
08:26had to jump on a grenade for him during the postgame press conference.
08:30I love A.J. I think he knows how I feel about him.
08:33Brown can't catch up to that one!
08:37I have a special relationship with him.
08:39We probably went through every emotion you can possibly have together.
08:44And then, to add to insult, Jalen Hurts had to take the high road when asked if there
08:49was any beef between the two.
08:50A.J. and I'll talk, we're in a good, great place.
08:54Last one.
08:54Maybe y'all can talk to him and I have to.
08:56I'll be back.
08:58I have no doubt.
09:02Two things they don't do in Philly, good cheesesteaks and diva behavior.
09:06So congrats, A.J. Brown, you just became the most hated athlete in Philadelphia since Ben Simmons.
09:12Yeah, I want A.J. Brown packing his bags, and I want him somewhere else that is not here.
09:16It's not going to f***ing happen, I'm sorry.
09:17It's not going to happen.
09:18It's not going to happen.
09:19So what did we learn today?
09:20Showing kindness will get you killed, but at least you'll go viral.
09:24Sportsmanship ain't real, and Philly's fan base absolutely sucks, but we already knew that already.
09:29Keep sending in your hot takes, your vibra videos, and we'll use them.
09:32We'll see you next week, y'all, on What The Take.
