Welcome to Deadcast, a podcast taking you through the week of sports lunacy.

Here are Deadspin, editor-in-chief Tim Marchman and columnist Drew McGarry.

The takes are back, Marchman. They're back. We're back with takes.

Yay!

I'm so excited, man. I, you know, this has not been the best sports stretch.

No.

And I needed some takes.

I needed some fire.

I needed some spice in my life, some heat.

You know, it's amazing how this is such a stupid scandal.

And yet, like, every few months or something, every few months or so, something even more

explosive happens.

Like, we had, like, it all flamed up during the Super Bowl, right?

And then it went away.

And then the Wells report took nine years to be issued.

And then the Wells report was explosive. And then the suspensions came and they were explosive, right? And then the Wells report took nine years to be issued. And then the Wells report was explosive.

And then the suspensions came and they were explosive, right?

And then everything sort of settled down.

And then this report of the cell phone came out.

And it was again, it was like, I've never seen a teat milked so thoroughly.

You know, it was like, it's I, I'm, I'm impressed and in awe of how,

how much the NFL has gotten out of this. Like, we, I, I can't think of any lesser thing

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