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The Distraction: A Defector Podcast

NFL Good/Bad with Kalyn Kahler (Part 1)

The Distraction: A Defector Podcast

Defector Media

Sports, Society & Culture

4.72.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Our guest is Kalyn Kahler, which can only mean one thing: NFL Good/Bad time has arrived! We’re splitting the show up this year, so Kalyn will go through the NFC with us today, and Mina Kimes will join us next week to break down the AFC. OMG FOOTBALL.

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Stuff We Talked About

  • The state of that union now that Lloyd Howell has been ousted
  • NFC Good/Bad
  • What actually happened with former Bears DC Alan Williams?


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Credits

- Hosts: Drew Magary & David Roth

- Producer: Brandon Grugle

- Editor: Mischa Stanton

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About The Show

The Distraction is Defector's flagship podcast about sports (and movies, and art, and sandwiches, and certain coastal states) from longtime writers Drew Magary and David Roth. Every week, Drew and Roth tackle subjects, both serious and impossibly stupid, with a parade of guests from around the world of sports and media joining in the fun! Roth and Drew also field Funbag questions from Defector readers, answer listener voicemails, and get upset about the number of people who use speakerphone while in a public bathroom stall. This is a show where everything matters, because everyone could use a Distraction. Head to defector.com for more info.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

We're back, we're back. It's the distraction. I'm true. That's raw. They do, Roth.

0:07.3

I'm good, man. You are in a good mood. This guy, I wonder, wonder why that could be.

0:13.1

Could it be that the NFL season is just about here? I don't think that's it. I don't think

0:19.6

that's what it was. I think it's something else.

0:21.8

Oh, oh. I mean, if you thought it was like the Adam Thielen trade, I mean, that was good. I mean, I was okay. But I'm not going to. He really, he really brightened up once they brought Adam home for a fifth rounder. And, you know, everyone else in the locker room needs to get their vaccines to make sure that they don't get anything that he's got. But let's talk to our

0:21.3

guest. It's ESPN's Kael and And, you know, everyone else in the locker room needs to get their vaccines to make sure that they don't get anything that he's got.

0:38.2

But let's talk to our guest. It's ESPN's Kalyn Kaler. And with Kalin here, it can only mean one thing. It's time for NFL good bad. Yeah. Hi, Kailen. Yeah.

0:34.3

How are you guys?

0:35.6

Doing good, Kaelan.

0:36.5

How are things in your world?

0:37.5

I saw you on TV the other day.

0:39.0

You believe that shit?

0:39.9

Oh!

0:40.5

I have been on TV the other day.

0:54.6

You believe that shit?

0:55.5

Oh.

0:56.1

I have been on SportsCenter a couple times for summer. Are you going to be on countdown and be one of the people they station? No. Oh, okay. That was fast. I know. It would be cool because ever since COVID, the NFL has been very restrictive of who gets to be on the sideline pregame. And that's one of the best places to be, like, as a reporter, because everyone's just like farting around for like three hours before the game. Like nobody's doing anything, you know, useful. I mean, eventually they start running through, you know,

1:27.8

a team period warm up, you know, right before the game starts like 30 minutes before. But

1:32.0

they're just strolling, you know, the general managers take their laps of the field,

1:36.1

working up with sweat, you know, power walking. Everyone's just power walking. And it's a great time

1:40.8

to like power walk with them and like make some connections. So hopefully someday I will get to do a little bit more TV, like, during regular season. But I did get to do, like, I was on the field pregame for the Giants Bill's preseason game. And it was great. I got to, like, talk to a bunch of coaches. You know, it was awesome. So did you get to meet Tommy DeVito before got whacked? No, actually, I have met him, but I did not talk to Tommy DeVito that day. I know it's so bad they broke up the, what were they calling themselves, the three amigos? Worth it? Minus Russell. Russell wasn't part of that. Yeah. I was getting to everyone except that's so great. Like, Like, we've gotten to the point now where instead of the team freezing out, Russ, like his quarterback room doesn't know. The quarterback group. Yeah, we don't want anything to do with that piece of shit. Yeah, James, like, put up a video after their last preseason game because wasn't it that each one of them, let a touchdown drive? In a preseason game. So that means something.

2:34.2

Yeah.

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