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Hi, this is Josh Levine.

This is Slate's sports podcast, hang up and listen for the week of November 21st, 2016.

Last week in this space, I said, who cares about Dak Prescott?

And now I'm going to say that we're going to talk about

Dak Prescott, the quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys, because how long can one man and one nation

go without talking about Dak Prescott? We've suffered long enough. We'll also be joined by

Neil Payne of 538 to talk about the state of the running quarterback and what today's

runners slash passers

oh to Randall Cunningham and puck daddy's Greg Woshensky will be here to talk about

Connor McDavid, Patrick Linae, and Austin Matthews, the National Hockey League's three new

teenage stars. Joining me as Stefan Fatsis authored the book's Word Freak and a few seconds of panic. And we've got to congratulate Stefan. Big news. He did not miss an extra point on Sunday. One of the few kickers who did not. That's great news. Can we talk about this in Wimsy Watch? We can talk about it in Wimsy Watch. Joining us, as always from New York is is Mike Pesca, the host of Slate's daily podcast, The Gist. And you didn't miss an extra point either. No, but I started going for two because of the Wimsy. Not much of your identity is really bound up in it, so you don't deserve. Congratulations. Twelve missed P.A.T's. Are we in Wimsy right now? Have we entered the whimsy stream? We're beyond the whimsy stream.

We are in meta-wimsy. I think we're at Wimpscom too. I never know. No one knows if Def-Cons go up or down. But we can define how the WimScom. All right. They go down. So if... Wimbscom goes up, though. Yeah, but more whimsical or less whimsical? If it's at one, that's the least whimsical, which is the most dangerous. We're beyond meta at this point. All I know, all I know, I don't know if it goes up or down. I know that it is punctuated by the audio of a slide whistle, whichever way it moves. Stefan, yeah. those 12 missed P.A.T.

How do they make you feel emotionally?

Emotionally wounded.

I'm feeling a little sad.

I had a very, lost a lot of sleep last night.

You look like you've lost a lot of weight, actually.

Your cheeks look, look drawn.

Hollow.

And yeah, it was a really disaster because it dropped the PAT make rate all the way down to 93.6% for the season, which is just plummeted from 94.2% last year, the first year of the 33-yard extra point.

So, I mean, it was basically a statistical anomaly, all these guys missing at once. Or was it? Or maybe not. They're just going to start missing them every week. Well, which games? It's in their head. Have we looked at the wind stats of the games? It was the windiest day in the northeast that I can remember. Yeah. Yeah. Wind is getting colder.

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