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The Ryen Russillo Podcast

Matt Hasselbeck. Plus Jeff Passan on Nolan Arenado and MLB’s Problems.

The Ryen Russillo Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.813.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2021

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Russillo shares some NBA thoughts (2:00) before talking with longtime QB and ESPN analyst Matt Hasselbeck about some Super Bowl story lines, playing for Andy Reid on the Packers, stories from Matt’s NFL career, Super Bowl picks, and more (7:00). Then Ryen talks to ESPN MLB insider Jeff Passan about the Colorado Rockies trading Nolan Arenado, MLB’s problems with competitiveness, a looming potential players strike, and more (32:00). Finally, Ryen answers some listener-submitted Life Advice questions (1:01:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Today's pod is going to be a lot of fun.

0:12.0

We're going to talk with Matt Hasselbeck on playing for Andy Reed when he was drafted

0:16.7

out of BC in the next quarterback room with Brett Farb and Peterson.

0:21.4

I mean, just unbelievable stories out of him.

0:23.4

And we got a little Jeff Pass and a little hot stove.

0:26.6

And what has not been that hot.

0:28.7

I like talking that labor stuff about baseball and what the new proposal looks like in an incredible

0:32.7

story.

0:33.7

Both sad and redemption feature that he has up on the espn.com has a little documentary

0:38.6

piece of it as well.

0:40.3

So we'll do that in some life advice.

0:42.0

That's a plan.

0:43.0

We got a little NBA game that I was thinking of last night when I was watching the nets

0:46.0

and clippers because we're all watching the nets because we're trying to figure out how

0:49.4

this is going to look and offensively it was stupid.

0:51.2

The shot making from Durant, Harden and then Kyrie in particular, just another reminder

0:56.1

of what they're capable of, but we've also seen what they're capable of in a negative

0:59.5

way defensively.

1:00.9

The numbers in the fourth quarter off the charts on the offense and historically bad defensively.

1:05.8

But they were really good.

1:06.8

I thought in moments defensively with just effort alone and it clogged the clippers up

1:11.3

and look, then that's got a nice win against another really good team in the clippers.

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