Doing Less With Less with Andy Behrens and Chris Harris

The Distraction: A Defector Podcast

Defector Media

Sports, Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

The NFL is back in full swing, and so our good buddy Andy Behrens returns to the pod along with his cohort Chris Harris. We’re looking at analytics, and how fantasy football butts up against football reality. When does the math go too far? Is it even possible to pick a team so safe they’re immune to a single dude tripping and falling? We’ll check in with Andy’s Bears, Chris’s Pats, and Roth’s Giants, and a few other stand-out teams from this week’s matchups (even some college teams), and then dive into the Funbag to answer real questions from listeners.

Do you want to hear your question answered on the pod? Well, give us a call at 909-726-3720. That is 909-PANERA-0!

Stuff We Talked About

Sports fans vs math fans
When to punt, and when not to punt
The question we apparently can’t get enough of, “Is Daniel Jones good?”
The firing of Mike Gundy
The dreaded return of the Toilet Sandwich

Credits

- Hosts: Drew Magary & David Roth

- Producer & Editor: Mischa Stanton

- Production Services & Ads: Multitude Podcasts

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About The Show

The Distraction is Defector's flagship podcast about sports (and movies, and art, and sandwiches, and certain coastal states) from longtime writers Drew Magary and David Roth. Every week, Drew and Roth tackle subjects, both serious and impossibly stupid, with a parade of guests from around the world of sports and media joining in the fun! Roth and Drew also field Funbag questions from Defector readers, answer listener voicemails, and get upset about the number of people who use speakerphone while in a public bathroom stall. This is a show where everything matters, because everyone could use a Distraction. Head to defector.com for more info.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	We're back. We're back. It's a distraction. I'm Drew. That's Roth. I do, Roth. I'm good, man. How are things? We almost at October, the King of All Months. So I, uh, I'm feeling, I'm feeling pretty good. Jimmy Kimmel's back on the air. There's, like, all the nation's problems are really in the rearview mirror. I'm pretty, I thought it was really inspiring. Yeah, nothing but, nothing but uphill stuff here.
0:23.3	You know, we're going to get all our average late night. really in the review mirror. I'm pretty... I thought it was really inspiring. Yeah. Nothing but
0:21.7	nothing but uphill stuff here. You know, we're going to get all our average late night
0:24.8	shows back. It's going to be a good time. But in the meantime, until that happens, until full
0:30.5	restitution is made to the late night's in the world. Until Craig Ferguson is restored toward our
0:35.2	airwaves. Oh, yeah. Bring it back.
0:37.9	We have two guys.
0:39.1	We have our old friend Andy Barron's and also Chris, his partner, Chris Harris, the Harris
0:45.0	Fantasy Football Podcast.
0:46.3	We did not have Andy on prior to the season to do our usual fantasy football preview because
0:51.1	it just wasn't time, but we we desperately wanted to have him on again
0:55.0	because he's a, he's a big favorite of listeners. So Andy and Chris, welcome to the show.
0:59.9	Oh, I am, I am happy to serve as a bridge until the return of Ferguson. So, uh, very pleased to be here.
1:05.8	If you don't mind, would you mind using a Scottish accent for the remainder?
1:09.8	I think it would, I'd find it very soothing.
1:14.0	You dropped it David Montgomery
1:16.0	in the 11th round.
1:17.9	That's pretty good.
1:20.7	That's my normal speaking voice.
1:23.1	I grew up in a Scottish part of
1:24.8	like a pocket in North Jersey
1:26.2	was a lot of Scottish culture.
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