Shedeur Sanders NFL Draft fall full of prank calls and calls for collusion! Major problems continue with replay review! (Episode 1264)

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Dan Le Batard

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🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Today’s word of the day is ‘free fall’ as in NFL Draft as in Shedeur Sanders as in prank calls as in collusion as in crazy. Shedeur Sanders was a top QB prospect and he fell to the 5th round. People lost their minds. Experts lost their minds. Analysts lost their minds. Why? Another part of the Sanders story was a prank call he received… from the son of the Falcons defensive coordinator! (18:50) Devin Williams is no longer the Yankees closer. We are one month into the season. Woof. (27:10) A Guardians fan was removed from the stadium on Sunday after horrific comment made to Red Sox LF Jarren Duran. Just awful stuff. (36:50) Review: The Assessment. (39:10) What is the purpose of replay in sports if in the most critical moments you miss things and can’t review? (45:32) NPPOD. (47:05) Tyler Glasnow is hurt again. Before it was cramps and now it’s his shoulder. He joins a long list of Dodgers pitchers that are all hurt. Why is this happening? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Here you go.
0:03.0	Here you go.
0:04.0	It's the nothing personal word of the day.
0:20.0	It's Monday, April 28, 2025, and this weekend was one of those weekends.
0:26.1	What do we start with?
0:28.4	This is the moment when I wish we had more than one hour to talk through issues and things that happened.
0:35.7	But I have to start with Shador Sanders because I've never seen this level of attention,
0:42.1	this level of seriousness about a player falling from round one to round two at around three
0:48.9	to round four to round five.
0:52.1	People losing their minds.
0:54.0	It wasn't about race. It was not black people, white people,
0:57.1	brown people, purple people. It was people with a microphone telling you that NFL executives
1:04.5	were prize idiots. Not one team, not two teams, but all 32 teams. I don't know how you could include the
1:14.0	Browns in there. The Browns drafted him in the fifth round. I guess you're an idiot when you
1:19.2	don't draft a guy earlier who you end up getting. That's ridiculous, of course. It makes you
1:24.9	smart.
1:37.4	Andrew Berry had the GM of the Browns had a very funny comment saying, hey, yeah, we took him because he was no longer valued correctly.
1:41.6	He had dropped so far that it made sense to take him.
1:45.8	They didn't need a quarterback. They've got 69 quarterbacks in the quarterback's room now. But when you see that sort of arbitrage and you've got a player available to you who is
1:52.9	better than his draft slot and you can sign that player, then you draft the player.
1:59.4	Even if you don't need the shortstop or the quarterback,
2:02.2	you take the best available player in theory. That wasn't even the craziest part of this whole
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