NPDS - Bill Belichick out in New England! Nick Saban out in Alabama! Pete Carroll out in Seattle! WHOA! (Episode 966)

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Dan Le Batard

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🗓️ 11 January 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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We’ve been nominated in two categories for the Sports Podcast Awards! Best Baseball Podcast! Best Sports Business Podcast! You can vote for us now: https://www.sportspodcastgroup.com/shortlist-category/ Today’s word of the day is ‘centrifuge’ as in carousel as in spinning and spinning and spinning as in Pete Carroll then Nick Saban and then Bill Belichick! What a day. The end of multiple eras. Let’s start with Billy B and the New England Patriots. (14:00) Nick Saban has retired from Alabama. Another legendary coach. Why now? NIL? Is he tired? Too much competition? Transfer portal? (23:30) Pete Carroll is out in Seattle. We thought that’d be the biggest news of the day… and it wasn’t close! (31:55) Review: Continental Divide. (37:20) NPPOD. (39:30) So You Wanna Talk to Samson!? Someone asked me about the NFL and the retirement package deals they are giving to employees. Why is this happening? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Here you go.
0:04.0	go. Oh. Centrofuge that's the nothing personal word of the day for Thursday
0:19.4	January 11th 2024 and I want to give a shout out before we start the show to the PR people at New England and Bill
0:29.6	Bellachik and Robert Kraft. Thank you so much for letting the news go that you are leaving the Patriots
0:37.0	at about 7.04 a.m. giving me 56 entire minutes to get ready for a live show that was ready to lead with Nick
0:46.9	Sabin that earlier in the day was ready to lead with Pete Carroll. It felt like yesterday was the day that Farah Fawcett passed
0:55.3	away getting ready to be on the cover of People magazine and then Michael Jackson
0:59.6	died the same day and they said sorry Farah you're no longer in the news I wonder whether that's
1:04.8	how Pete Carroll thought he shouldn't have thought that way he deserves his own
1:09.3	segment he'll get it Nick Sabon resigning from Alabama.
1:15.0	That's the lead, the greatest college coach of all time.
1:18.0	I have a lot of thoughts in my head.
1:19.9	That's a segment.
1:21.4	Getting ready, prepping with Koca, and then boom, the centrifuge bleeds out another casualty.
1:29.9	I don't know what that is, the centrifuge. Picture something spinning really fast,
1:36.0	like the coaching carousel,
1:37.3	that people can't hold on anymore,
1:39.0	so they're flying off.
1:41.0	Picture when you go to a carnival and you get on that ride with the swings where you're on a swing and they put it up in the air and you're going around and you think you're going to fly off or the ride where you're strapped against the wall and the floor comes out and
1:56.7	they're spinning you around so fast that you're just strapped against the wall.
2:00.7	Sort of like what a centrifuges.
2:02.0	That's what I'm picturing the coaching carousel.
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