The Distraction: A Defector Podcast
Hosted by Drew Magary and David Roth and Arif Hasan · Defector Media
4.4from 2,484 ratings
- 311
- Episodes
- 112
- Transcribed
- 2,484
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
About The Distraction: A Defector Podcast
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.
- Publisher
- Defector Media
- Category
- news · sports
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 28 Jul 2020
- Latest episode
- 16 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
112 of 311 episodes have a transcript.
16 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
A Stoppable Force vs a Movable Object
9 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Every Week 1 Matchup
3 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Coming Soon: ALL BALL, the Defector Media NFL Podcast
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A Stoppable Force vs a Movable Object
Published 16 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Ooh! Yeah. That's why we hired you, man. One of the strangest things that I found when first exploring like football data, when I was first getting into like this analytic stuff, was that second and one was better than first and 10, you know, the first and 10 being a yard further downfield. So there's actually, I think, merit to this question, right? Like you would automatically think, well, being further downfield is obviously better. But here you get to go 10 yards and have another chance to first down, right? So what is better? So I looked at Over the last four years, the average number of points scored from teams who had a drive that had a first down on the 11 or 12-yard line and those who had a first down at the 10-yard line. […]
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- Tim Marchman
- Justin Ellis
- Rohan Nadkarni
- Paul Tremblay
- Justin Halpern
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- 2,484 ratings
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Who hosts The Distraction: A Defector Podcast?
Drew Magary and David Roth and Arif Hasan host the show. Published by Defector Media.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes daily, based on its RSS feed.
Does The Distraction: A Defector Podcast take guests?
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