All Ball

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This is All Ball: The Defector Media NFL podcast. Featuring no gambling or fantasy talk, just straight matchup and team breakdowns every week. Starring lifelong ball knowers Drew Magary and Arif Hasan.

Sep 30

Not Two Total Dipshits! Yet!

Drake Maye stinks! Giants trade for J.J. McCarthy! Doesn’t Case Keenum deserve to keep his job? (kidding not kidding) Credits Hosts: Drew Magary & Arif HasanProducer: Brandon Grugle, MultitudeEditor: Mischa Stanton, MultitudeVoiceover: Eli YudinAds & Production Services: MultitudeSubscribe to Defector!Subscribe to Wide Left! About The Show This is All Ball: The Defector Media NFL podcast. Featuring no gambling or fantasy talk, just straight matchup and team breakdowns every week. Starring lifelong ball knowers Drew Magary and Arif Hasan. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Sep 25 · Bonus

How One Trick Play Tells The History Of Football

Last year, Josh Levin's grandfather told him about a college football game he saw in person all the way back in 1944. That game featured a play so bizarre that he remembered it for more than 80 years. After that conversation, Levin set out to learn as much as he could about what really happened that night in LSU’s Tiger Stadium. What he ended up finding was a much bigger story, about chicanery and ethics and a century’s worth of players hiding in plain sight. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Sep 23

The Justin Herbert Experiment is Over

Are the 49ers the best team in football? Are the Falcons the worst team in football? Could this show be better? Let's talk about it. Segments 00:02:52 – Mailbag00:26:15 – Thursday Night00:33:59 – Sunday Afternoon01:52:01 – Sunday Night01:56:55 – Monday Night02:01:13 – Credits Credits Hosts: Drew Magary & Arif HasanProducer: Brandon Grugle, MultitudeEditor: Mischa Stanton, MultitudeVoiceover: Eli YudinAds & Production Services: MultitudeSubscribe to Defector!Subscribe to Wide Left! About The Show This is All Ball: The Defector Media NFL podcast. Featuring no gambling or fantasy talk, just straight matchup and team breakdowns every week. Starring lifelong ball knowers Drew Magary and Arif Hasan. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Sep 16

A Stoppable Force vs a Movable Object

Our first episode went smoothly, but we have some postgame adjustments we need to make: Drew said last week that he’d put ALL of the homerism away for this show, but that’s not fun. So he's gonna give himself a little bit, especially after the Vikings kicked the shit out of Green Bay on Sunday! MWAHAHAHAHA SUCK MY BALLS, JORDAN LOVE! Segments 00:06:45 – Mailbag00:22:33 – Thursday Night00:27:18 – Sunday Afternoon01:03:13 – Sunday Late01:29:11 – Sunday Night01:36:42 – Monday Night01:45:31 – Credits Sponsors Zocdoc, check that appointment off your to-do list! Credits Hosts: Drew Magary & Arif HasanProducer: Brandon Grugle, MultitudeEditor: Mischa Stanton, MultitudeVoiceover: Eli YudinAds & Production Services: MultitudeSubscribe to Defector!Subscribe to Wide Left! About The Show This is All Ball: The Defector Media NFL podcast. Featuring no gambling or fantasy talk, just straight matchup and team breakdowns every week. Starring lifelong ball knowers Drew Magary and Arif Hasan. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Sep 9 · Video

Every Week 1 Matchup

It's the start of the season, which can only mean one thing: Drew and Arif pick every single week one matchup. Sponsors Quince: download the Quince app for app-exclusive offers, and get free shipping on your order and 365-day returnsBlueland: get 15% oﬀ your first orderRaycon: get 20% off Credits Hosts: Drew Magary & Arif HasanProducer: Brandon Grugle, MultitudeEditor: Mischa Stanton, MultitudeVoiceover: Eli YudinAds & Production Services: MultitudeSubscribe to Defector!Subscribe to Wide Left! About The Show This is All Ball: The Defector Media NFL podcast. Featuring no gambling or fantasy talk, just straight matchup and team breakdowns every week. Starring lifelong ball knowers Drew Magary and Arif Hasan. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Sep 3

Coming Soon: ALL BALL, the Defector Media NFL Podcast

No fantasy talk, no gambling advice, no other nerd shit. Starring Drew Magary and Arif Hasan, just two pure ball knowers who only want to talk about one thing… FOOTBALL. Kicking off September 10th on all podcast services. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Aug 27

The Final Distraction with Tim Marchman

This is it. Thanks for so many great years. Stuff We Talked About Deadcast triviaBuzz Bissinger’s spursBig Daddy BallsA rare guy remembering momentMe, ape-ishMashups!The formal event on a sex boatBaseball yarmulkes Sponsors - Blueland, where you can get 15% off your first order Credits - Hosts: Drew Magary & David Roth - Producer: Brandon Grugle, Multitude - Editor: Mischa Stanton, Multitude - Production Services & Ads: Multitude - Subscribe to Defector! About The Show The Distraction is Defector's flagship podcast about sports (and movies, and art, and sandwiches, and certain coastal states) from longtime writers Drew Magary and David Roth. Every week, Drew and Roth tackle subjects, both serious and impossibly stupid, with a parade of guests from around the world of sports and media joining in the fun! Roth and Drew also field Funbag questions from Defector readers, answer listener voicemails, and get upset about the number of people who use speakerphone while in a public bathroom stall. This is a show where everything matters, because everyone could use a Distraction. Head to defector.com for more info. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Aug 20

A Proven Placebo That Gets Results

Special announcement: Rohan is not here. But Drew and Roth do actually have an important announcement. Stuff We Talked About Masochistic tendenciesThe Cyber-Christ ComplexOther people’s dogsNon-fungible podcasts Credits - Hosts: Drew Magary & David Roth - Producer: Brandon Grugle, Multitude - Editor: Mischa Stanton, Multitude - Production Services & Ads: Multitude - Subscribe to Defector! About The Show The Distraction is Defector's flagship podcast about sports (and movies, and art, and sandwiches, and certain coastal states) from longtime writers Drew Magary and David Roth. Every week, Drew and Roth tackle subjects, both serious and impossibly stupid, with a parade of guests from around the world of sports and media joining in the fun! Roth and Drew also field Funbag questions from Defector readers, answer listener voicemails, and get upset about the number of people who use speakerphone while in a public bathroom stall. This is a show where everything matters, because everyone could use a Distraction. Head to defector.com for more info. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Snooze

5d ago

Good for napping

🥱🫩😴😴😴 I listened to Defector/Deadcast for 12 years and this makes me sad. Keeping pace with the website down the hill the last year
What a huge bag-fumble

5d ago

blechap

The choice to discard the Distraction (beloved, good, interesting) for the world’s most generic football podcast is a really strange one. Good for you guys for having no gambling content but you threw away a great podcast to do so? Not for me anymore…
It’s not what you want…

Sep 25

TrashLungs

I understand the creative choice to move on from The Distraction, but replacing its feed with All Ball is a big whiff. This podcast is the opposite of what made the Distraction great. Fun, offbeat discussion switched out for dry NFL analysis. I’m a Defector supporter and otherwise love Drew’s football content, but this isn’t it. “No gambling and no fantasy talk” is great and all, but that alone doesn’t make a good show. There’s nothing I’ve heard in these episodes that isn’t covered better, more concisely, and with more entertainment value in other podcasts like The Mina Kimes Show. The Distraction set itself apart. All Ball is a watered down version of podcasts that already exist in the most oversaturated sports media market in America. Such a disappointment.
Bummer

Sep 24

Damars1

LOVED distraction, hate this….i was rooting for you guys and i know things change but it’s a big ol bummer

This is All Ball: The Defector Media NFL podcast. Featuring no gambling or fantasy talk, just straight matchup and team breakdowns every week. Starring lifelong ball knowers Drew Magary and Arif Hasan.