Joe Burrow’s Turf Toe, Carlie’s Colts Kill It, and Taylor Makes an Entrance with Ali Krieger

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🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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We’re pouring one out for the Bengals’ Joey B, who’s out for the next three months recovering from turf toe. Blake begs the question: why couldn’t it be a sexier injury? Elsewhere in the midwest, the Colts are killing it for the first time in *checks watch* a long time. Some say it’s thanks to the new QB on the block, Daniel “Indiana” Jones. Our verdict? It’s thanks to Carlie Irsay-Gordon, who’s been prepping her whole life for this. Plus, we catch up with former USWNT member, Ali Krieger, about life post-retirement and what cross-sport solidarity means for the future of women’s sports. In this episode of Well Played, we also cover: One detail Travis shared about his proposal to Taylor Why fans think Shaun White and Nina Dobrev ended their engagement Where Gigi Hadid and Bradley Cooper watched the Eagles game this week How Jennifer Hudson played a role in Paige Bueckers learning about her ROTY status Send Its: Josh Allen’s biggest fan only knows three words Naomi Osaka gathers Dawn Staley, Sue Bird, Juju Watkins and more for a TikTok Dan Campbell gifts game ball to former Lions owner for her 100th birthday Paige Bueckers learns she’s rookie of the year Ali Krieger’s IG: @alikrieger Caroline’s IG: @cghendy Blake’s IG: @blaaakkkke theSkimm’s IG: @theskimm PS: Did you know theSkimm has a sports newsletter? Sign up at theskimm.com/sports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to Well Played.
0:05.4	Presented by this game, I'm Caroline Henderson.
0:07.3	I'm Blake Morgan.
0:08.4	I need to tell you something really crazy about this wedding I went to this weekend.
0:10.9	Oh God, what?
0:11.9	The wedding was great, whatever.
0:12.8	Two crazy things happened.
0:13.8	Yeah.
0:14.8	One, the bride, her cousin, dates my dad's best friend's daughter.
0:20.6	No.
0:21.0	And we met each other at the wedding.
0:22.6	I didn't even like follow the family tree that you just laid out, but that's insane. Bride. Yeah. Cousin. Yep. Girlfriend. Okay. My dad. Never mind. I'm not even going to try and pay me a picture. Yeah. It's a lot. Crazy though. We like, she was like, your dad is Dave Merwin.
0:35.8	And I was like, yeah, he's kind of a local legend.
0:38.2	You're like, yeah, not a big male.
0:39.5	Yeah, kind of royalty.
0:41.1	Yeah. In New Jersey. Wow. Love that. And then the person sitting next to me at dinner has a friend who's going to the wedding I'm going to in three weeks in St. Louis. Whoa. That's weird, right? That's a lot. Weird connections. The world is really small. It freaks me out.
0:54.7	Very small.
0:55.2	I don't like it. You have a good birthday? Yeah, I had a great birthday. You know, another year older, wiser, allegedly. My dad came. He took me shopping because he's a queen. Well, King. Sorry, Dad. Queen. Queen. and then we went out to dinner.
1:11.8	It was lovely.
1:12.4	I love that.
1:12.9	Yeah, it was nice, wholesome.
1:14.4	That's all I need, you know? Just good food, good clothes. Good dad. Good dad. All the girl can ask for. Okay. We have to make sure you guys are sticking around later because we have to let you know we've got kind of a big deal coming on
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