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Hang Up and Listen

Hang Up and Listen - The Nick Foles Is a Super Bowl MVP Edition

Hang Up and Listen

Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2018

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Josh Levin and Stefan Fatsis talk with the Gist’s Mike Pesca about the Eagles’ win over the Patriots in Super Bowl LII. They’re also joined by Jeff Passan of Yahoo to discuss what can be done to fix Major League Baseball’s broken economic system.

Super Bowl LII (1:15): The original Hang Up crew discusses all aspects of the Eagles’ thrilling 41-33 victory over the Patriots, including Nick Foles’ excellent play, Doug Pederson’s gutsy coaching, Bill Belichick’s benching of Malcolm Butler, and what’s next for Rob Gronkowski.

MLB economics (35:40): Yahoo’s Jeff Passan assesses the different factors leading to baseball’s stalled free agent market, and how players and owners might resolve the stalemate.

Afterballs (53:37):


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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:17.0

Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen for the week of February 5th, 2018.

0:23.4

On this week's show, we're going to talk about the Philadelphia Eagles 41 to 33 win over the New England Patriots and Super Bowl 52.

0:30.4

A lot of stuff happened.

0:32.1

Two segments worth of stuff.

0:33.7

When we're done with that, we'll be joined by Jeff Passon of Yahoo.

0:36.3

He'll let us know if baseball's slow free agency market is evidence of collusion by major league owners. Joining me here in Washington, D.C. is the author of the book's Word Freak in a few seconds of panic. It is Mr. Stefan Fatsis. Hello, Stefan. Hello, Josh. And with us from New York, it's the host of Slate's Daily Podcast, The Gist, and the best Super Bowl party in all of New York City. Mike Pesca. Hello, Mike. Thank you. We had macaroni and cheese and little cups, served in little mini muffin cups. I like that. That was just the tip, the tip of the snack iceberg. Oh, all right. We had a cuss-cus and ratatooey mix. Yeah. Let's save that for the body of the shell. Let's not give away the good stuff too soon. That's right. That was our trick play. You come for the cuss-coose. Turns out there's some chopped up vegetables. The Eagles won 41 to 33. Man, that was a really good Super Bowl. I don't have much of a, I don't have much more of an introduction than that. You don't need much more than that. Let's just get into it. Most yards in an NFL game ever, in any game. That was 11151 yards of offense, Mike. Did they even say that during the game?

1:44.3

No.

1:47.2

No, it was on pro football talk afterwards. They were too busy complaining about the Eagles' last two touchdowns Collinsworth was.

1:51.7

I guess the point where they set the record and eclips the 1952 contest between the L.A. Rams

1:58.2

and the New York Yanks, that happened at a critical juncture.

2:02.2

So you don't stop and say they have just set the record for most yards in a game.

2:05.7

I also saw that stat reported as, hey, it was the most yards in a Super Bowl.

2:09.0

Yes.

2:09.5

And all the other thousands of games.

2:11.7

Like, that's notable.

2:12.8

Isn't that notable?

2:15.4

I will get into, we will get into the flaws of each team's defense for with great

2:20.2

offenses come poor defenses.

2:22.5

However, I would just like to know, one of the reasons that this was such a great game

2:26.2

is because of the Patriots or but accomplishments.

2:31.0

So in any normal game, when a team like the Eagles showed the dominance

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