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All Ball

by Defector Media

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.

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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: B

Sep 30
1 h 39 min

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 remembe

Sep 25
46 min

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

Sep 23
2 h 01 min

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

Sep 16
1 h 46 min

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-exclusiv

Sep 9
1 h 53 min

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.

Sep 3
1 min

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!Th

Aug 27
1 h 01 min

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 Comp

Aug 20
52 min

Tee-Hee Ha-Ha Reparations Now Motherf*cker Energy with Justin Ellis

Fellow Defector Justin Ellis joins Drew and Roth! They talk about his upcoming book, The Cruelty of Nice Folks: Why Minneapolis Is the Story of America, and how Justin th

Aug 13
1 h 06 min

A Tale of Two Sandwiches with Rohan Nadkarni

Rohan’s back! Him and Drew both have a sandwich story of woe that simply needs to be told. But, more importantly, Giannis is a Heat! Is Rohan excited? Also, the Dodgers j

Aug 6
53 min

Roller Skating Fully Nude into the Game

We’re deep in the summer, and that means a Drew and Roth solo episode! Drew is beaming in directly from his vacation, and Roth has some shit to shoot. After, they get to

Jul 30
52 min

The Boorish Manners of a Yale-y with Paul Tremblay

Drew and Roth are joined by acclaimed horror novelist Paul Tremblay! Not only does Paul have a new book out, Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep, but he’s also now a cert

Jul 23
57 min

What If We Tried To Win? with Justin Halpern

Justin Halpern (writer/producer, Abbott Elementary, Sh*t My Dad Says) has a new book, Get Lost, and he here’s to talk about how he wrote it with Drew and Roth. But first,

Jul 16
1 h 03 min

We Americans Know Better with Diana Moskovitz & Dave McKenna

Drew has finally vanquished Roth, so fellow Defectors Diana Moskovitz and Dave McKenna are on the show! First, World Cup – who’s rooting for who? Are either of them for i

Jul 9
50 min

Give the Lobster a Knife

It’s summer vacation season, and that means a classic Drew and Roth solo episode. Many digressions ensue, then they open up the funbag to answer real questions from real

Jul 2
47 min

The Last Refuge of Scoundrels with Kelsey McKinney & Alex Sujong Laughlin

Kelsey is here! Drew is not! Alex Sujong Laughlin is also here to discuss the new season of Try Hard, the first episode of which just came out last week. Alex has written

Jun 25
1 h 04 min

Sports! (The Human Spirit) with Ray Ratto

Ray Ratto joins Drew and Roth to talk about two cups, Stanley and World. But first, on a scale of Not Very to Maybe A Little, how happy is Ray for New Yorkers right now?

Jun 18
58 min

The Provenance of the Lobster with Giri Nathan

Defector’s resident Knicks fan, Giri Nathan, joins Drew and Roth this week! After dropping Game 3, how is Giri feeling about his team? The series seems to hinge on wheth

Jun 11
57 min

Don’t Tell Anyone How I Live with Leander Schaerlaeckens

Leander Shaerlaeckens (author of the book The Long Game: U.S. Men's Soccer and Its Savage, Four-Decade Journey to the Top, or Thereabouts) joins the show for a World Cup

Jun 4
59 min

A Larry David Look-a-like with David Grann

Drew and Roth are joined by David Grann, bestselling author of The Wager, Killers of the Flower Moon, and other precious tomes, and staff writer at The New Yorker! And, b

May 28
56 min

Chart trend

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#43
all-time peak
2
days in the top 50 since Sep 2026

Chart positions

Where All Ball ranks today in each Apple Podcasts chart (US, Oct 3, 2026).

#101 ▼ 37 Football US

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I caught onto this one kind of recently, and I wanted to say thanks for reintroducing me to sports. I’m a trans woman that transitioned over a decade ago, and somewhere near the beginning I kind of separated myself from sports. This podcast reintroduced me to sports in a passive-learning-rehabilitation sort of way. Wanted to say thanks since, you know… you know.

Lana Divinorum · Aug 2026

Drew and Roth are endearing because they clearly love and cannot divorce themselves from sports fandom like so many of their audience members. We all have the ability to understand sports as part of our shared reality, but sometimes you just have to say FTP, Skol Vikes etc. The show sings when this discordance is acknowledged, felt, and eventually ignored because this sports stuff is actually a really good way to sink your attention into something that had a modicum of logic to it (unless you are a Jets fan). Smug, smarmy, non-ball knowers who only want to talk about sports as a lens through which to understand culture are irritating, condescending, and boring. I might agree with everything they say but I’m getting that from every other show I listen to! Naturally I am being too harsh. Oh well!

Teddy Bridgewater’s ACL · Aug 2026

Love this pod. Roth’s voices and baroque turns of phrase and Drew’s fake commercials and bro-ish enthusiasm make for an ideal combo.

The Mo Salah Cantina · Jul 2024

Would give this pod 10 stars. So fun, entertaining, and knowledgeable. Drew and Roth’s chemistry is off the charts. Only to be ruined by Producer Guy’s constant interrupting. Thank god for the skip button. So, only 5 stars. Added bonus, there’s sandwich talk!

snazzyshoes19 · Oct 2023

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