Drew returned exuberant, grinning and wearing a J.J. McCarthy Vikings jersey, leading the show with his signature "We're back" honk. NFL football's imminent return fueled the hosts' seasonal NFL coverage and optimism about certain teams. The annual Good/Bad NFL segment was split into separate AFC and NFC episodes, with Mina Kimes slated to join for the AFC. Kalyn Kahler joined to discuss her ESPN reporting, sideline ambitions, the NFLPA's unsettled state under an interim one-year president, membership challenges around accountability and process, and an unexpected endorsement of DeMaurice Smith's memoir.
Drew is a professional, and so he can be counted on to deliver a pro-grade honking of "We're back" at the top of every episode of The Distraction. So you will have to believe me when I say that, this week, the big fella was grinning, downright bubbly, and quite literally clad in a new J.J. McCarthy road-white Vikings jersey when he said the line. Yes, we're back every week. But this week, especially, we are back.
We also talked about the uneasy and unresolved state of the NFLPA at this moment, where an interim president on a one-year contract is trying to rebuild from something like absolute zero, and membership is encountering the challenges of trying to fix a problem without fixing the process that led to it and trying to hold people accountable without really knowing who that would even be.
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