NPDS - Are Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce, and the Chiefs really villains?; How the 49ers capitalized on the NFL's minority hiring incentive program (Episode 986)

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Dan Le Batard

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🗓️ 8 February 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Today’s word of the day is ‘anti-hero’ as in Taylor Swift as in Travis Kelce as in Patrick Mahomes as in the Chiefs. When did they become the bad guys? How did this happen? Patrick Mahomes was asked about being a villain, but is he really a villain for winning? (11:30) The NFL minority hiring incentive program is causing quite a stir. Teams are getting draft picks for getting coaches and executives hired away. The 49ers are at the top of that list and owners aren’t happy. (25:40) Review: Silence of the Lambs. (30:03) Netflix announced that a new documentary series will be shot this year Hard Knocks style on the 2024 Boston Red Sox. I have some thoughts because the Marlins did this! (35:50) NPPOD. (37:00) Let’s discuss some things about the MLB owners meetings taking place. What will they talk about? The olympics? Why have the World Baseball Classic AND the Olympics for baseball? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Here you go.
0:03.0	go.
0:04.0	go. Anti Hero. That's the nothing personal word of the day for Thursday, February 8th,
0:21.2	2004. It's me.
0:25.0	Hi, I'm the problem.
0:28.0	It's me.
0:30.0	An antihero is the main character of a story, but one who doesn't act like a typical hero.
0:36.0	Antiheroes actually can be a little villainous, not like Kaiser Sousa Villain or the guy from gold finger with the gold teeth or even
0:46.3	Maude Adams from Octopussy. I don't mean that type of villain, the Joker or
0:50.0	the Riddler Penguin. I'm talking about somebody who has really been a good guy, beloved, and then it starts
0:59.0	wearing away and people start saying, wow, you're a little overexposed.
1:04.6	I'm going to root against you.
1:07.0	I'm talking about Patrick Mahomes,
1:08.6	Travis Kelsey, and the Kansas City Chiefs.
1:11.4	My how times have changed. Patrick Mahomes met the media yesterday and he said
1:18.7	that he was almost embracing this new role of being the villain.
1:25.0	Talked about, I just really like winning.
1:28.2	And if you win a lot that causes you to be a villain.
1:31.6	And that got me thinking about today's show.
1:35.3	Have the chiefs won so much by being in the conference
1:39.4	championship for six years in a row and trying
1:42.3	to defend their Super Bowl championship, they're the
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