It’s NFL Good/Bad 2023! with Kalyn Kahler
The Distraction: A Defector Podcast
Defector Media
4.4 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2023
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Senior Writer for The Athletic and former Defector comrade Kalyn Kahler is back to preview the NFL season with Drew and Roth. They’re deciding if every single team will be Good or Bad this year with absolutely no explanation in between. But at the top, Kalyn gives her perspective, as someone at the Athletic, on the New York Times shuttering its sports desk.
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Credits
- Hosts: Drew Magary & David Roth
- Producer: Eric Silver
- Editor: Brandon Grugle
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About The Show
From Defector Media: Former Deadspin writers Drew Magary and David Roth should really stick to sports. Sure, their new indie sports podcast will break down the week in sports: the Mets grounding into quadruple plays, NBA players getting testy on the court and horny on Instagram, Bill Belichick cutting 80% of his roster just to keep himself interested, horrifying takes from sports talk radio that need to be broken down, etc. But these two men and their guests will have their fair share of off-the-field issues they’ll also have to address: stupid Funbag questions, bad tweets from bad people, pointless food arguments, and even less. Every week is a VERY long week these days. We could all use a little Distraction. Head to defector.com for more info.
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| 0:00.0 | We're back. We're back. It's a distraction. I'm true. That's Roth. How are you doing, Roth? |
| 0:06.4 | I'm good, man. How are things? Are people clear when I say that's Roth, that your name is David Roth, |
| 0:12.1 | or do they think that you're Rob, or Ron, or... |
| 0:16.8 | John Valiant thought I was Ron, or Rob, or something, which I thought was great. That was like, |
| 0:21.5 | revealed in Minute 51 of the podcast, and he was like, it's like, Rob made a good point there, |
| 0:26.8 | I thought. I was like, I love that guy. I love Rob. And you, Drew McBerry, you were a good host too. |
| 0:33.9 | Yeah. People that I don't really know call me Roth because of the podcast, which I find endearing, |
| 0:40.6 | I guess. I have no other... I mean, if I decided to be mad about it, I would be mad about it. |
| 0:44.2 | I was gonna say, I don't know if you're being truthful there. I think it might annoy you a little bit. |
| 0:48.4 | No. I mean, people have called me that for the longest time in my life. It's just weird when |
| 0:52.1 | it's somebody like meeting me for the first time. They're like, what's up with Roth? And I'm like, |
| 0:55.6 | I don't know. I guess. I'm fine. Or are you? Like, they give you just a big fucking Texas 5 star on |
| 1:02.0 | the back. Yeah. So good to see you. This is very, very exciting. I'm excited because when this post, |
| 1:11.4 | it's going to be the first day of the NFL season. Boo! So to that end, we have our very, very good |
| 1:19.8 | friend, Kaelin Kaeler of the Athletic joining us. Hi, Kaelin. Hey guys. Happy to be back. What's going on? |
| 1:26.7 | We are going to commence our annual tradition of playing NFL good, bad with you, Kaelin. But before |
| 1:33.1 | we do, I have serious industry questions because you work at the athletic. The athletic is owned by |
| 1:38.4 | the New York Times. New York Times recently shuttered its entire sports section and is now moving all |
| 1:44.4 | of that to the athletic. And so I have to ask you as someone who is on the, I guess the predator |
| 1:51.9 | side of this food chain. How has that felt for you personally and then also internally at work? |
| 2:00.1 | It feels bad. It was really weird when it happened because I'd heard rumors about it from like, |
| 2:07.1 | someone I know at the Washington Post, not Laura Wagner told me, told me that it was. |
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