The Quarterback Bargain Bin
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Hosts Alex Kirshner, Lindsay Gibbs, and Ben Lindbergh discuss the unusually high number of NFL teams that are seeking new quarterbacks via trades and free agency amid a weak draft class. Later: Why the Miami (Ohio) RedHawks could be left out of March Madness despite an undefeated regular season. Finally, Lindsay breaks down some of the stranger aspects of the WNBA’s collective-bargaining process—and the behind-the-scenes contributions of Kelsey Plum and Breanna Stewart.
In this week’s bonus episode for Slate Plus members, the hosts turn to the Celtics’ improbable (and slightly annoying) dominance despite missing their best player for most of the season.
Quarterback merry-go-round: (10:34): Tua to Atlanta?
Miami Redhawks (26:36): 31-0.
WNBA CBA (41:52): A Union divided?
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| 0:00.0 | It is Monday, March 9th, 2025. |
| 0:09.7 | Welcome back to Hang Up and Listen, the sports podcast here at Slate. |
| 0:12.5 | Back with you again, I'm Alex Kirchner. |
| 0:14.2 | I'm a contributing writer here at Slate, and I co-host Split Zone Duo, a national college football podcast. |
| 0:20.3 | We have a big show for you this week. |
| 0:21.8 | We're going to talk about an awfully active and squirrelly NFL quarterback carousel, led by a guy with six career starts, perhaps on the verge of collecting $30 million per season. |
| 0:33.6 | We will talk about one of the great seasons in recent college basketball history, one that somehow has not yet generated universal agreement that the team involved should get into the NCAA tournament. |
| 0:44.6 | It brings up a lot of disturbing business dynamics around that sport. |
| 0:47.8 | And we will even double up on the round ball this week so we can discuss a weird, and I do mean weird, week of machinations around the WNBA |
| 0:56.8 | player's quest for a new collective bargaining agreement. As usual, joining me this week is |
| 1:02.3 | Lindsay Gibbs, Women's Sports lead at CBS Sports, co-host of Burn It All Down, publisher of PowerPlays, |
| 1:09.4 | a newsletter that covers of the biggest stories of the day in |
| 1:11.2 | women's sports, and person who I presume changed their clocks this weekend. |
| 1:15.5 | Lindsay, how are you? |
| 1:17.2 | You know what? Technology just changes them for me. And my car clock will be correct now, |
| 1:22.5 | because I never changed it last time. So that's good news. You know, I feel like I need an I survived my first |
| 1:29.7 | champ week as an editor hat on right now, but doing good and got some breaking news before, |
| 1:38.6 | just before we recorded. My boyfriend is at a big candy conference in Florida because he |
| 1:43.7 | does candy buying for a grocery store chain. |
| 1:47.4 | And our worlds don't overlap that much. |
| 1:49.8 | But apparently Nick Saban is speaking at the big candy conference tomorrow. |
| 1:56.3 | Nice. |
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