In honor of J.J. Watt claiming that Ray Rice is not worthy of a place on the Chipotle menu, I asked Ephraim about the best trash-talk moments from his 13 years in the NFL. The conversation stayed on players’ talk with some discussion about Cam Newton throwing his organization under the bus, and then it was on to Newton’s sweater game, Richard Sherman’s Transformers game, and more. At some point, we discussed football, but I can’t exactly remember when.

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