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Chiefs DE Frank Clark reveals which of his teammates talks the most trash

Which #Chiefs player talks the most trash? Frank Clark’s answer might surprise you. . .

The Super Bowl opening night ceremony always brings about some unique questions.

The Kansas City Chiefs have some vibrant personalities on the field and in the locker room. Several of them of fiery and passionate players, who aren’t afraid to hide it. So, who among them talks the most trash? Frank Clark was asked this question during Super Bowl LVII’s opening night and his answer might surprise you.

“The most trash? Tommy Townsend,” Clark exclaimed. “My punter. My punter Tommy Townsend talks the most trash. I swear to y’all. If he say he don’t, I don’t know, I don’t want to call him a lying man, but Tommy Townsend talks trash y’all.”

A little surprising, right? You’d think that maybe it’d be someone on the defensive line. Patrick Mahomes is even known to talk some trash as a competitor. But, no. According to Clark, Townsend is the guy.

Townsend was one of the league’s best punters this season, earning First-Team All-Pro honors. He certainly earned the right to talk some trash given his performance.

After watching him launch this punt against the Las Vegas Raiders earlier this season and his reaction, maybe Clark isn’t so far off on his assessment of Townsend.

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Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes, TE Travis Kelce humble Bengals in on-field interviews

#Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes and TE Travis Kelce took some time to humble the #Bengals during their AFC title game on-field postgame interviews.

The Kansas City Chiefs earned the right to talk a little trash after defeating the Cincinnati Bengals in the AFC Championship Game on Sunday.

There was plenty of chatter leading up to the game between these two teams with the Chiefs’ recent record of success against Cincinnati being held over their head. The most notable was Bengals nickel corner Mike Hilton’s comments on the sideline during the AFC divisional round, dubbing Arrowhead Stadium as “Burrowhead.”

Speaking to CBS sideline reporter Tracy Wolfson after the game, QB Patrick Mahomes and TE Travis Kelce let Cincinnati have a taste of their own medicine.

First, Travis Kelce interrupted Mahomes’ chat with Wolfson to deliver the following PSA on the disrespect shown to their home stadium:

Next, Patrick Mahomes made fun of Joe Burrow’s postgame celebration in last year’s AFC title game. Burrow lit up a cigar and had a little dance to Lil Elt’s “Get The Gat” all before going on to lose to the Los Angeles Rams in Super Bowl LVI.

It’s safe to say this team took the trash talk to heart, but they also know that the job’s not finished. They’re just one step closer to achieving the goal that they set out to achieve at the onset of the 2022 NFL season.

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Tom Brady embodies poor sportsmanship, trash talks Saints sideline after late interception

Tom Brady embodies poor sportsmanship, trash talks Saints sideline after late interception

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It’s easy to root against Tom Brady. Few NFL players have cultivated a more insufferable persona over the last 20 years, consistently pointing to the chip on his shoulder despite racking up a series of Super Bowl wins, lucrative endorsement deals, and glossy documentary features on ESPN. So it’s particularly satisfying to see Brady frustrated in a loss, which has happened often in recent years when his Tampa Bay Buccaneers and their bandwagon full of fans have left games disappointed after being stomped by the New Orleans Saints.

After throwing an interception to Saints defensive back C.J. Gardner-Johnson late in the game, Brady jogged to the Saints sideline and shouted at defensive coordinator/interim head coach Dennis Allen. In a video clip from the NBC broadcast widely shared on social media, Brady pretty clearly appeared to say, “Go [expletive] yourself,” as Allen clapped at his approach.

Maybe more experienced lip-readers came away with a different message. When asked about what he said in the encounter postgame, Brady wilted and replied, “Nothing. Just football.”

Entertaining as it may be, it’s really sad that Brady handles adversity this poorly. He’s been to the mountaintop more often than anyone else in the NFL, winning more championships and breaking more records than all of his peers. And he still isn’t satisfied with his success or able to take a setback on the chin. In meltdowns like this or his temper tantrum on the Tampa Bay sideline, lashing out and trashing team equipment, he looks more like a toddler than a 44-year-old multimillionaire. It’s a terrible example from someone with his platform and with so many young fans watching.

And let’s not act like there isn’t a double standard here. Many other players have been penalized and fined for taunting on lesser offenses than this. If the NFL is going to have stupid taunting penalties the least they could do is be consistent in calling them. What more does Brady need to do to be held accountable?

Whatever the case, the Saints left Tampa Bay with a lot to be happy about. They frustrated Brady and his vaunted offense at every turn and now they’ve swept him twice in two years — something that never happened during his decades in the AFC East. Maybe Brady can learn to lose more gracefully in more matchups with New Orleans.

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WATCH: DeVonta Smith trash talks Mac Jones while playing cornhole

Former Alabama stars Mac JOnes and Heisman winner DeVonta Smith made a stop with the American Cornhole league to play some cornhole. The …

Former Alabama offensive stars quarterback Mac Jones and wide receiver DeVonta Smith have finsished their collegiate careers, participated in the Senior Bowl and are now on their way to being drafted in the first round of the 2021 NFL draft.

Along the way, Jones and the 2020 Hiesman winner teamed up to participate in a professional cornhole match with the American Cornhole League.

While participating in a match today, the two former teammates exchanged some friendly trash talk.

While Jones was mid-throw, Smith spoke out, saying, “Pressure, Mac. Pressure, Mac.”

Mac later responded to the trash talk by claiming the two of them were going back and forth all match long.

You can watch the clip below,

Dwyane Wade goes full Dad Mode in 1-on-1 against son Zaire, and the trash talk is so good

This is like every game between a dad and a son, it’s just they’re much, much better.

What I love so much about this clip of Dwyane Wade playing his son, Zaire, is that it’s the quintessential game of 1-on-1 that has been played between any dad and any son in the history of time.

The dad uses his size advantage, posting up his child, getting easy buckets, while his kid frantically works harder and harder until slowly coming to the realization that this game, much like life, is unfair. Yelling ensues, etc. My own dad did this to me. Yours probably did as well.

It’s just in this version of the 1-on-1 game, one of the players is a top-20 NBA player of all time, and the other is a highly touted D-1 prospect. Watch, then please stick around for the end, and the trash talk.

The trash talk at the end is truly the best part. Zaire yelling at his dad, maybe a top-three shooting guard in the history of the NBA, that he should try and do jump shots “and see what happens” is so perfect it warms me. He told Dwyane Wade to see what happens!

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Gary Trent Jr. trash talked Paul George and NBA fans loved every bit of it

This was amazing.

If the Portland Trail Blazers end up making it into the postseason, it’ll partly be due to the exploits of one Gary Trent Jr.

He’s been shooting the lights out for the Blazers throughout their time in the NBA bubble, hitting 62% of his threes so far as Portland fights for their playoff lives.

He’s had some pretty incredible games, but none more impressive than his game on Saturday against the Clippers. The Blazers ended up losing, 122-117, but he put up 22 points off the bench and hit six threes.

The best part, though? It was easily the trash talk that he was giving to Paul George in the fourth quarter.

Trent and George got tied up fighting for a loose ball late in the second half. He basically told him he was talking too much.

Trent kept talking, though. And during money time in the fourth quarter, no less.

The internet absolutely loved it.

It’s all good on George’s end, though. The Clippers got the last laugh with a win.

I’ll tell you what, though. Six more games of this at any point would be awesome. We won’t get that, but we can still dream.

Cameron Jordan talks trash to Tom Brady, but can the Saints back it up?

New Orleans Saints defensive end Cameron Jordan trolled Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady, creating fresh bulletin board material.

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Few NFL players enjoy chopping it up with the media more than Cameron Jordan. The New Orleans Saints defensive end appeared on “Good Morning Football” this week on NFL Network to preview the 2020 season and lay out his expectations, starting with a Week 1 kickoff against Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

“They’ve got the second-greatest quarterback of all-time, right behind Drew Brees, and now we’ve got a head-to-head two times a year,” Jordan said, via NFL.com. “We’ve got our work cut out for us and then they have an addition, you bring in Rob Gronkowski and LeSean McCoy, you already had two 1,000-yard receivers in (Chris) Godwin and Mike Evans.

“This is a team that’s fighting for second place.”

That’s bold talk, which isn’t new for Jordan (who famously shipped bottles from Jordan Winery to Cam Newton after his Saints swept Newton’s Carolina Panthers). But will the Saints defense show up in Week 1?

The black and gold have been notoriously slow starters in recent years. Despite winning 13 games in each of the last two season, they stumbled out of the gate in both season-openers: in 2019, the Saints averaged 333.1 total yards allowed per game (11th-best in the NFL), but opened the year by allowing Deshaun Watson and the Houston Texans to drop 414 yards of offense on their heads, scoring 28 points in a game that came down to a last-second Wil Lutz field goal for the win.

A year earlier, the Saints allowed 349.1 yards from scrimmage per game (ranking 14th league-wide) but were run off the field by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers; Ryan Fitzpatrick shredded them to the tune of 529 total yards, winning 48-40 in a game that was more lopsided than that score suggests. This kind of goes without saying, but just to be clear: Brady is a better quarterback than Fitzpatrick.

Sure, the Saints rebounded in both cases. But it’s an ugly pattern, and they can’t afford another start like what we’ve seen before. Jordan and the Saints must hit the ground running in 2020 if they’re going to win their third consecutive division title. With new uncertainty introduced from the COVID-19 pandemic and Brady surrounded by weapons young (Evans, Godwin) and old (Gronkowski, McCoy) there’s very little margin for error.

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Cameron Jordan: Falcons games prepared him for playing in empty Superdome

Cameron Jordan would prefer to play in front of New Orleans Saints fans, but he says he’s used to empty stadiums after so many Falcons games

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The novel coronavirus pandemic has already shifted the NFL’s offseason calendar, and more changes seem inevitable. One significant difference for the 2020 season would be games played in stadiums with fewer fans — if any at all, which would be a big hit to teams reliant on their home-field advantage like the New Orleans Saints.

But all-star defensive end Cameron Jordan isn’t buying that narrative. He’s ready to play anywhere, anytime, even if he will admit that a quieter Mercedes-Benz Superdome would feel, well, awkward. While he’s hopeful to play games in front of a supportive crowd, he’s acutely aware of how public health concerns must be the top priority.

Jordan commented on the situation after a recent event in which he gifted $25,000 in computers to underserved New Orleans schoolchildren. He said, “That Dome Field advantage is real. When Who Dat Nation fills in that entire stadium, those are chills right there. That’s the advantage you feel.”

The Superdome has played host to some of the NFL’s highest-scoring games, with Drew Brees conducting Sean Payton’s offense to peak efficiency over the last decade-and-a-half. But Jordan’s defense has stolen the show in recent years, feeding off the crowd noise and putting pressure on opponents.

Playing without that backing would hurt, but Jordan is confident that the Saints will overcome it. He pointed to the lackluster showing by opposing fans for Saints road games as preparation for these sort of circumstances.

“Now we’re just going to know that everyone is tuned in on TV, I guess? I don’t know. To have to treat a home game like an away game? Awkward,” Jordan continued, “It’ll be like playing in Atlanta or something.”

That’s some nice fuel to add to the fire for the always-heated Saints-Falcons rivalry. Maybe Atlanta will make it competitive this year.

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Kevin Garnett had a classic story about making the mistake of talking trash to Michael Jordan

Lesson learned.

During his playing career, Kevin Garnett was known across the NBA as one of the game’s most notorious trash talkers. He had an uncanny ability to get into his opponent’s head, but that trash-talking prowess had its limits.

That limit was Michael Jordan.

Separate podcast and radio interviews with J.R. Rider and Garnett from All-Star weekend made rounds on social media this week. And both players described the same Jordan trash-talking story with stunning consistency (so you know it’s probably true). Basically, Rider was going into the fourth quarter against the Bulls having already scored 24 points on Jordan. A young Garnett wanted to get under Jordan’s skin and said that MJ couldn’t guard Rider.

Big mistake, Kevin. (NSFW language)

Garnett described Rider trying to apologize to Jordan ahead of time, saying that Garnett was young and didn’t know any better. Jordan didn’t care.

A two-point game ballooned to a 25-point Bulls lead with Jordan shutting down Rider, and a gassed Garnett apologized to Rider for the mishap. Rider told Garnett to keep his mouth shut next time.

Garnett learned an important lesson that night.

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