Warren Sapp and Michael Strahan, two finalists for the latest Pro Football Hall of Fame voting, have swapped shots after Sapp was elected, but Strahan was not.

After Saturday’s Hall of Fame vote, Sapp went on WDAE Radio with his belief that he couldn’t compete with Strahan’s media presence on Live With Kelly & Michael.

“Say if I rewind this to Saturday at 12 o’clock me and you are sitting and I say, ‘It breaks down whatever and whatever and then you have Michael Strahan and me.  C’mon, the menace and the media darling,’” Sapp told WDAE.  “C’mon.  Madness, or Good Morning America?  I mean, c’mon.”

Strahan apparently felt slighted and fired back at Sapp via Twitter.

@WarrenSapp You never cease to amaze me! Enjoy your moment. You don't need to take a shot at me to justify yourself to other people. #class—
Michael Strahan (@michaelstrahan) February 08, 2013

The 2013 class of Pro Football Hall of Fame inductees will be announced on Feb. 2, 2013. (Jason Miller/Getty Images)

The Pro Football Hall of Fame announced 15 modern-era finalists Friday morning including four nominees in their first year of eligibility.

Voters will consider guard Larry Allen, tackle Jonathan Ogden, defensive tackle Warren Sapp and defensive end Michael Strahan, along with last year’s 11 finalists who were not elected: Running back Jerome Bettis, wide receiver Tim Brown, wide receiver Cris Carter, owner Ed DeBartolo Jr., linebacker Kevin Greene, defensive end Charles Haley, owner Art Modell, coach Bill Parcells, wide receiver Andre Reed, guard Will Shields and cornerback Aeneas Williams.

As many as five modern-era finalists will be voted in as inductees on Feb. 2, the day before Super Bowl XLVII.

Semifinalists who did not advance include kicker Morten Andersen, safety Steve Atwater, coach Don Coryell, running back Roger Craig, running back Terrell Davis, tackle Joe Jacoby, cornerback Albert Lewis, linebacker Karl Mecklenburg, ex-commissioner Paul Tagliabue, special teamer Steve Tasker and executive George Young.

Two senior nominees — defensive tackle Curley Culp and linebacker Dave Robinson — were announced in August.

Brandon Marshall slammed Warren Sapp Monday, three days after Sapp called him a “retard.” (Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images)

Chicago Bears wide receiver Brandon Marshall hit back at former NFL player and current NFL Network analyst Warren Sapp on Monday, three days after Sapp controversially referred to Marshall as a “retard.”

Friday on The Dan Patrick Show, Sapp leveled the loaded charge at Marshall when criticizing current players’ knowledge of the NFL’s past.

“These kids that play the game today have no relevance for the past, have no conscious of what it is,” Sapp said, according to The Chicago Tribune. “I mean, Brandon Marshall talking about Shannon Sharpe, who is he to talk? He’s the first 100-catch receiver, back-to-back, retard. What you just did in Denver for three years. You don’t know this? No, of course he doesn’t, because it’s not about Brandon Marshall … it ain’t about the past, it’s about me. It’s about personal success, pay me, and now I’ll think about being a team guy.”

Marshall responded by posting two videos on Twitter. In the first, which garnered more than 10,000 views in 14 hours, Marshall hammered Sapp on everything from his divorce to filing for bankruptcy. Via the Tribune, here’s part of what Marshall said in the first video:

“Listen, I got a very disturbing heads up on something Warren Sapp said. He called me ‘retarded.’ That’s really disappointing to hear that from an NFL legend, but I’m going to take this as a lesson. And I think we all can learn from this. Be very careful who you take advice from. You want to surround yourself with good people, Godly people. When I look at Warren Sapp, I can’t go to him and talk about finances because he filed for bankruptcy. I can’t go to him and talk about my marriage because he filed for divorce. I can’t go to him and talk about being a great father, because one day I’m going to have children, because he’s not active in his children’s life. The lesson that we all should learn here is surround yourself with good people and be careful who you take counsel from. … And guys like Warren Sapp, I feel sorry for. So hopefully, one day he’ll change his life. We’ll pray for him. Instead of using words to destroy, he may use words to uplift.”

Fourteen minutes later, Marshall posted another video, tweeting at Sapp that he was “holding you accountable.”

“All we can do is try to encourage him to be better but at the same time, we’re going to hold you accountable, Warren,” Marshall said. “Just like I’m held accountable. I’ve made my share of mistakes, and I’m going to continue to make my mistakes, but I’m never going to put myself on a platform or a podium where I think I’m invisible or untouchable. So, warren, take this as words of encouragement and not words to criticize you or destroy you. This is out of truth and love. All right, Warren.”

Later, Marshall tweeted that Sapp emailed him in response to Marshall’s videos:

So @warrensapp just emailed where and when. I assume he wants to fight. Exactly what I’m talking about. #comeonmannn

— Brandon Marshall (@BMarshall) September 24, 2012

Former NFL star Warren Sapp blasts former coaches and teammates in new book. (Mike Lawrie/Getty Images)

Former NFL star Warren Sapp has always been a person who isn’t afraid to speak his mind. So when given the chance to write a book, fans should know what to expect.

The Tampa Bay Times reported that new Sapp’s 314-page book, Sapp Attack, goes on the offensive and attacks several former coaches and teammates.

Here is what he had to say about former defensive corridnator Monte Kiffin: “I always believed Kiffin (blitzed) so much because he wanted the glory; it made him feel like a great defensive coordinator.”

Sapp, who retired in 2007 and is now an analyst on the NFL Network, said that former coach “Tony Dungy put the damn cake in the oven, and then Jon Gruden came in and put the icing on it,” when referring to the success of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The Bucs won the Super Bowl after the 2002 season, Gruden’s first season with the team after Dungy was fired.

Former quarterback Trent Dilfer got his share of criticism as well.

“Dilfer … basically was an interception waiting to happen,” Sapp wrote. “There were times we practically pleaded with him, ‘We know you’re not going to score a touchdown, but please, just don’t turn it over.”

No word on when the book will be released.

Former NFL Pro Bowl defensive lineman Warren Sapp filed for bankruptcy last month, a decision he said had to be made to avoid jail time.

“Do you think I wanted to declare bankruptcy?” Sapp told the Tampa Bay Times. “Do you think if there was any other way possible I would have done it? It was either this or go to jail. Those were my choices.”

Sapp, 39, declared for bankruptcy with $6.7 million worth of debt. He said that the entirety of his earnings from NFL Network were garnered for the past 11 months.

“You tell me what to do,” Sapp told the paper. “Do you keep working without a check? If you don’t pay your child support, you go to jail. This wasn’t something I wanted to do. This was something I had to do.”

While NFL Network analyst Warren Sapp claims he has it on good authority that tight end Jeremy Shockey was the “snitch” who spoke out about the New Orleans Saints’ bounty program, Shockey is vehemently denying that accusation. Shockey came out to Yahoo! Sports’ Jason Cole yesterday and blasted Sapp for calling him out.

“It’s reckless, it’s careless, it’s hurtful to me and the great time I had with the Saints,” said Shockey, who played for the Saints from 2008 to 2010. “[Saints coach] Sean Payton is a father figure to me. I would never do that to him or to the Saints.”

Sapp hasn’t backed down from his insistence that Shockey leaked word of the bounty scandal, even clarifying to Cole yesterday that “I trust my source unequivocally.” In response, Shockey offered multiple times to take a polygraph test, even saying he’d do it on live television.

The free-agent tight end even took it one step further, taking a cheap shot at Sapp personally.

“Sapp can say what he wants about me, but if he really says that he’ll put his life on the line for his source, we’ll see,” he said. “I’ve never been a guy who failed multiple drug tests. I’ve never been divorced. I don’t have four kids by four different women. I don’t lie. This attacks my character and it’s not fair.”

Warren Sapp was one of the greatest defensive tackles to ever play the game of football.  He’s now a TV analyst for the NFL Network.  The confluence of those two roles makes him uniquely qualified to critique Albert Haynesworth, the talented but troubled defensive tackle who excelled with the Tennessee Titans, struggled with the Washington Redskins, and looked to redeem himself this year with the New England Patriots.

And critique Sapp has, laying into Haynesworth in an interview with Jeff Howe of NESN following Haynesworth’s sudden release from the Patriots.

Sapp has any number of choice words for Haynesworth, according to Howe’s story:

“A lazy guy,” for example.

“ I don’t remember this guy playing like this, except when it was time to collect the contract. Don’t go to his contract year. Go two years before the contract. Go three years before. He was a two-and-a-half sack guy for five years,” for another.

Or this: “I don’t think the greats of the game ever motivated him. I think it was a situation where he got a $100 million payday, and he was like, ‘Oh, this is nice.’”

And, asked if he spends any time with Haynesworth, Sapp lowered the boom again: “No, because normally I’m at Pro Bowls and Super Bowls. You have to be on a certain level to be around. Bill Russell said it best. Champions like to hang around with other champions.”

Perhaps most revealing, though, was what Howe reports that Sapp believes Haynesworth’s release means: possibly the end of his career.  ”That’s normally what happens. When the genius and the master says you’re no good, the league always says, ‘I agree with you.’ A hundred million dollars couldn’t motivate you, and neither could Bill Belichick. Who wants this challenge?”