Hang Up and Listen - The Worst Quarterback Ever Edition

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🗓️ 5 November 2018

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by the Washington Post’s Rick Maese to talk about the state of the Maryland football program after DJ Durkin’s firing. Slate’s Nick Greene also joins to discuss Buffalo Bills quarterback Nathan Peterman and Bleacher Report’s Mirin Fader explains why WNBA players opted out of their collective bargaining agreement.

Maryland (1:07): Maryland suspended D.J. Durkin, then reinstated him, then fired him. Rick Maese explains how the process played out and why Durkin ultimately got ousted.

Nathan Peterman (21:18): The Buffalo Bills quarterback is, by some measures, the worst quarterback ever. Why does it bring us so much joy to watch someone who’s so bad at his job?

WNBA (36:25): The world’s best women basketball players want higher salaries and better treatment. Will they get what they’re after given that the WNBA perennially loses money?

Afterballs (54:27): Stefan on why high school football teams are forfeiting games and Josh on UConn football coach Randy Edsall’s bizarre incentive-laden contract.

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:09.0	Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen for the week of November the 5th, 2018.
0:16.6	On this week's show, The Washington Post's Rick Mace will join us to explain what's going on at the University of Maryland, where head coach DJ Durkin was just fired after a contentious investigation that stemmed from the death of Maryland player Jordan McNair.
0:32.1	Slate's Nick Green will also be here to talk about the Buffalo Bill's Nathan Peterman, who's setting a new standard for bad
0:38.7	quarterback play in the NFL. And finally, Bleacher reports Mirren Fader will discuss
0:43.7	WNBA player's decision to opt out of their collective bargaining agreement and seek
0:48.8	a better deal. Joining me in our Washington, D.C. studio is Stefan Fatsis, author of the book's Word Freak and A Few Seconds of Panic, no funny scores in the NFL, so there's nothing to talk about.
1:02.2	Hi, Stefan.
1:03.1	Hey.
1:03.8	Should we just go right into the show?
1:05.0	Let's do the show.
1:05.7	All right, let's do the show.
1:07.6	Last week, the University of Maryland didn't, and then finally did fire DJ Durkin, the football coach in charge of a program in which a 19-year-old student, Jordan McNair, died from heatstroke following a practice last spring.
1:21.7	The firing could and probably should have happened months earlier, especially after media reports and then an
1:28.2	internal investigation, concluded that Maryland's football program under Durkan, and I'm paraphrasing
1:33.4	here, was pretty fucked up. The process that led to Durkan's firing was kind of the same. Rick
1:39.6	Mace of the Washington Post has been covering the Durkin case. He joins us now. Hey, Rick.
1:44.8	Great to be here. Thanks for coming. Let's start with some background. Jordan McNair's death
1:49.0	may have been caused, at least in part, by a football culture established by Durkin since he was
1:54.4	hired almost three years ago that has been revealed as at least in part physically and
2:00.1	psychologically abusive of players.
2:02.9	Give us a quick synopsis of the circumstances that led to McNair collapsing and dying
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