The Citronauts Are National Champions Edition

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Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Stefan Fatsis, former NFL player Nate Jackson, and football writer Melissa Jacobs discuss the NFL playoffs. Then Stefan talks to Spencer Hall of SB Nation about the University of Central Florida’s claim on college football’s national championship. And Stefan talks to soccer writer Jonathan Wilson about Manchester City’s dominance of England’s Premier League. NFL playoffs (1:09): Stefan Fatsis, former NFL player Nate Jackson, and football writer Melissa Jacobs discuss the first round of the NFL playoffs, more controversy over head injuries, a reported rift inside the New England Patriots, and Jon Gruden’s hiring as head coach of the Oakland Raiders. College football (14:35): Stefan talks to Spencer Hall of SB Nation about unbeaten Central Florida’s self-declaration as the national champion of major college football. Manchester City (29:50): Stefan talks to Blizzard editor Jonathan Wilson about Manchester City’s dominance in England’s Premier League, and the chances it can pull off an unprecedented “quadruple”—winning the league title, FA Cup, League Cup, and European Champions League. Afterball (39:51) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language. Hi, I'm Stephen Fatsus, and this is Slates Sports Podcast, hang up and listen for the week of January 8th, 2018. On this week's show I will be joined by former NFL
0:25.8	star Nate Jackson and football writer Melissa Jacobs to talk about the NFL
0:30.2	playoffs, the latest drama involving the New England Patriots, and the Oakland Raiders
0:35.3	decision to give Monday Night Football commentator John Gruden a gator-age shower of money.
0:41.5	Our friend Spencer Hall of Espination will be here to discuss
0:44.5	college football's true national champions, the University of Central Florida.
0:48.8	And finally, top-flight English soccer writer Jonathan Wilson Wilson who edits the magazine The Blizzard
0:55.0	will stop by to examine Manchester City's obliteration of the Premier League.
1:00.4	Josh Levine the editorial director of Slate magazine, is off this week.
1:05.0	I've got no solo banter. So let's get right to it. The NFL's week started with a
1:10.1	really nice sports moment. The Buffalo Bills made the playoffs
1:13.7	thanks to a last second touchdown pass in another game.
1:17.1	The reaction videos were fantastic.
1:19.3	Fans donated hundreds of thousands of dollars
1:22.1	to the foundation of the quarterback who threw the
1:24.2	pass the Bengals Andy Dalton and then it was right back to the depressing head shaking
1:29.5	awfulness that the NFL can be one sequence near the end of Jacksonville's scintillating, not,
1:37.0	10-3 win over Buffalo on Sunday went like this.
1:41.0	Brutal hit, hit concussion rules confusion catch confusion replay review
1:47.4	the NFL in a nutshell mate Jackson is here he's the author of slow getting up
1:51.7	and fantasy man he played six seasons for the Denver Broncos. Hey Nate
1:56.7	Hey, Stephen, how are you?
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