Introducing The Lead

Birds With Friends: A show about the Philadelphia Eagles

The Athletic

Fantasy Sports, Football,, Sports, Football

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2019

⏱️ 7 minutes

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From The Athletic and Wondery, The Lead is the first daily sports podcast that will bring you one big story from The Athletic's all-star team of local and national sports reporters to make you the most knowledgeable sports fan in any room. Subscribe now to hear new episodes of the Lead each weekday morning: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lead/id1478448344 Check out theathletic.com/thelead to read stories featured on The Lead. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello birds with friends listeners you like podcasts and you like sports which is why we're excited to tell you about the new
0:15.5	daily podcast from the athletic and our friends at Wundery that we think you're
0:19.6	going to enjoy. It's called The Lead and in some ways it is the anti birds with friends.
0:25.1	By which I mean that it is slickly produced.
0:27.4	The audio levels are always perfect and it is a bite-sized 25 minutes or so. Also no bird puns from what I can tell. Every weekday
0:35.5	morning sports writers kavith Davidson and Peabody Award winning
0:38.6	journalist Anders Kelto will bring you in depth on one big story from the
0:43.0	athletics all-star team of local and national reporters
0:46.2	like the lasting impact of the blown pass interference call on the
0:49.8	Saints and Sean Payton's incessant whining, which is my take not there.
0:55.0	You're about to hear a preview of the lead that looks at the tumultuous events that put Antonio Brown into the spotlight and the evolution of Roger Giddell's extremely arbitrary justice system, which is, again, me, not them.
1:08.0	Check out the Athletic.com slash the lead for the lead's featured articles on the athletic and go subscribe to the lead
1:14.4	on Apple Podcasts or wherever you're listening right now. There's also a link in the
1:18.4	episode notes that will take you there. Last week some major news rock the NFL.
1:27.0	New allegations overnight against NFL star Antonio Brown.
1:34.5	Antonio Brown has been accused of rape and a new lawsuit.
1:38.0	In the suit filed in the Southern District of Florida, the 28-year-old claims Brown sexually assaulted her on three occasions in 2017 and 2018.
1:47.0	The accusations against Brown came just days after he joined the New England Patriots.
1:52.0	But despite those accusations, Brown
1:54.7	played for the Patriots on Sunday.
1:56.6	Antonio Brown, the newest Patriot,
2:01.3	plunging into the stands in his hometown.
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