NPDS - Why the Bengals front office felt they needed to play Joe Burrow; Broadway Joe says Zach Wilson has to go!; I was RIGHT about the San Diego Padres (Episode 897)

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Dan Le Batard

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🗓️ 26 September 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Ya wannnna talk to Samson: davidsamsonpodcast.com Today’s word of the day is ‘aspiration’ as in hope as in expectations as in belief as in the Cincinnati Bengals want a Super Bowl. 2 seasons ago it was a Super Bowl loss. Last season was an AFC Championship loss. Now Joe Burrow has a calf injury and he doesn’t look good. Last night he struggled, but they won. How do teams handle these player injuries? (10:30) What are the Jets doing with Zach Wilson. He is bad. The team is losing. Saleh is doubling down. Joe Namath is fuming. (28:55) Review: Bank of Dave. (36:20) What is going on with the Padres? Everything we told would happen. (47:00) NPPOD Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Here you go, here you go.
0:16.2	Aspiration.
0:18.0	That's the nothing personal word of the day for Tuesday, September 26, 2023.
0:25.7	Inspiration is when you have a hope or ambition of achieving something.
0:30.6	That's the definition.
0:32.7	Teams go into a season with different levels of aspiration.
0:37.7	You can aspire to finish 500.
0:41.2	Who would want to do that?
0:42.6	You can aspire to improve on last year's record.
0:46.1	You can aspire to have more health, more fans, more revenue.
0:50.8	Forget it.
0:52.0	I want to aspire to win a world series.
0:54.7	I aspire to win a Super Bowl.
0:58.0	But pundits, they tell you what your aspiration should be, because they simulate the season
1:04.0	10,000 times, because they do their rankings, power rankings, they tell you exactly what
1:10.6	you're going to do, what you're going to hit, where you're going to finish.
1:14.2	The Cincinnati Bengals and the New York Jets both aspired to be Super Bowl contenders.
1:21.8	You would not have been in the minority if you thought that the Bengals and Jets could
1:26.9	meet in the AFC Championship.
1:30.3	In baseball, with the season coming to an end, their teams sitting down, and we're going
1:34.1	to talk about it later in the show, teams that had aspirations to be in the world series,
1:40.3	win the world series, and they will be going home in six days.
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