The Deja Vu All Over Again Edition

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Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2018

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by ThinkProgress’ Lindsay Gibbs to discuss the Kansas City Chiefs’ decision to cut Kareem Hunt. The New York Times’ Marc Tracy also joins to talk about Alabama’s comeback win in the SEC title game and Sports Illustrated’s Grant Wahl helps assess Gregg Berhalter, the new head coach of the U.S. men’s soccer team. Kareem Hunt (3:19): The NFL clearly screwed up its investigation into Hunt’s offseason incidents. But what’s a better way to investigate off-field conduct? Alabama (22:51): Backup quarterback Jalen Hurts led the Crimson Tide to victory. Should he be celebrated for his decision not to transfer? Gregg Berhalter (42:20): U.S. Soccer’s hiring process was awful, but how will Berhalter be as a coach? Afterballs (57:27): Stefan on Mongolian knuckle-bone shooting and Josh on the worst season ever by an NFL quarterback. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:04.0	Hi, this is Josh Levine and this is Slate's
0:12.0	Sports Podcast Hangup and Lesson for the week of December 3rd, 2018.
0:16.5	On this week's show, Lindsay Gibbs of Think Progress and the Burn It All Down podcast.
0:21.2	We'll join us to discuss the Kansas City Chief's decision to cut
0:24.8	Star running back Kareem Hunt after TMZ released a video of Hunt pushing and kicking a
0:30.0	woman. The New York Times is Mark Tracy will also be here to talk about Alabama's
0:34.4	crazy come from behind Wen over Georgia and the SEC title game, where they were led by one time
0:39.9	starter and now backup quarterback Jaylin Hurts.
0:43.0	And Grant Wall of Sports Illustrated will tell us what we need to know
0:46.4	about the U.S. men's national soccer team's new head coach Greg Berholter
0:50.2	as well as the tortured process that led to Burhalter's hiring.
0:55.0	Joining me in our Washington DC studio is Stephen Fatsus,
0:58.0	author of the book's Word Freak and a few seconds of panic.
1:01.0	Hello, Stephen.
1:02.0	Hey Josh. Stephen, should we talk about our
1:05.0	holiday plans? We could do that. Yeah. Or first should we talk about the fact that
1:10.5	the Seattle Seahawks had a
1:13.0	squaragami again over the weekend.
1:15.2	Scuragamed, I think is the very.
1:17.6	Over the weekend, 43 to 16.
1:21.3	I was surprised that was a squiragami
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