The Slant and Go

Noor & Andrew welcome back craig Alimo, world’s most reasonable Patriots fan, to the pod. It’s Super Bowl weekend, folks! craig has been one of the ringleaders at a prominent Pats bar in SF for over a decade and managed to parlay that into an appearance on Good Morning America(!) as well as something even more cool. Maybe. He hopes. Even if that doesn’t pan out, he gets to be immortalized on our l...

For this episode, we’re joined by Luke Fraley, world’s most affable Lions fan. (Not to be confused with craig Alimo, world’s most reasonable Patriots fan.) We do a quick recap of how the season ended for our respective teams before Andrew launches into a weird, pseudo-science-y lecture about why draft picks are unlikely to instantly make your team better (that guy can be such a downer). We proceed...

You blink and 10 years go by, ya know? We put our first episode out into the world on 4/4/2014 and came back on 4/4/2024 to record from the place where it all started, World Famous . We were joined by Brian “Schmizzy” Schmoldt, long-suffering-no-more Browns fan, and craig Alimo, world’s most reasonable Patriots fan. With craig being on the episode, we don’t know who’s actually ever going...

Noor, especially (but what else is new?), offers up some airtight statements about the needs of our favorite teams going into free agency and the draft. That is, after Andrew makes him relive the horror (from Noor’s perspective) that was Superb Owl LVIII. As per uzh, Andrew makes everything about the Seahawks, but Noor salvages the day by bringing the knowledge on the topics of the day. Don’t...

It is well-documented that week 1 is a liar. Do not trust week 1. Yet, here we are, after the first weekend of the NFL season with both doubts and hopes, attempting to make sense of it all. Join us as we attempt to navigate the feels.

We’re less than 2 weeks out from the 2023 NFL Draft, so of course Andrew would choose to talk about…Dougal Robertson?! He tries to make a connection to the Seahawks’ fortunes over the last 12 months, but like so many of John Schneider’s picks over the years it’s a stretch. Thankfully, Noor brings actual analysis to bear on the myriad possibilities of draft season. No one does the off-sea...

NFL quarterback is the most demanding position in all of sport, right? So, it makes sense for us to talk for an hour and a half about who’s rising, who’s falling, who’ll end up where, right? Don’t answer that…

Always wanting to give the people what they want, this episode is 2 of Craig’s commutes long. You’re welcome. Noor graciously starts us off by asking Andrew to recap his overachieving Seahawks before we spend most of the episode looking ahead, to the coming weekend, to the rest of the playoffs, and briefly to next year’s draft. We even give a preview of our next episode! (Assuming it doesnâ€...

Noor went out for a pack of cigarettes and…wait, that’s a different story. In this timeline, somehow we forgot to podcast for 2 years. Who does this? Us, apparently. Well, you can’t get rid of us that easily. We’re back and better than ever! If, by better than ever, you mean the same conversational NFL chit chat you’ve come to love over our 8 years in existence, except this time with som...

Everyone remembers their first time and hopefully so it will be for our guest, Bicky Bhullar, someone who, considering he is friend and family to Andrew and Noor, shouldn’t have taken 5 years to get on the ’cast. Our apologies, Bicky, but we made up for lost time by spending 2 hours talking through an exhaustive if a little meandering recap of the recent NFL Draft. You’d think we’d have sp...

As Noor so aptly put it, “time flies when you’re putting out an episode and a half a year.” It was exactly 5 years ago that we published our first episode. In that time, we’ve made a lot of predictions and if we were more organized we’d have gone through some of them and compared them to what actually ended up happening. But we’re not, so instead we talk about this pretty unprecedented...

Sport occupies a central space in the American psyche. We tell ourselves all manner of myth about our heroes who wage symbolic combat on our behalf. One of these is that our sports are only pure if the combatants are “amateurs,” but how does that make sense in a world where a member of the marching band can be paid to play a music gig without risking her music scholarship, but the point guard...

So many trades! What is this, the NBA?! Noor and Andrew talk through recent trades, including putting on our GM hats and making idle speculation about other possible trades ahead of the deadline next week. Andrew, once again, butchers a player’s name and gets a division wrong, but it’s endearing, right? No, no it’s not. But both listeners will tolerate it. We hope. Oh, and we might have anot...

You know that thing where we stumble over what episode it is, like, each and every episode? Well, we didn’t do that this time! I know, right? We’re getting better at this podcasting thing! And, a propos of the season, we actually spend the majority of our time on Fantasy Football concerns. What a concept! With Ben & Drew out for extended periods and Stafford on Andrew’s bench, we strategize...

As the NFL enters its 100th season, there are some historic story lines on the horizon. We talk about some of the all-time greats who should move up in the record books this season. Next, we get a little sidetracked talking about a possible work stoppage at the end of the season before pivoting to an explanation by Noor of the dynamics of a “dynasty” fantasy football league (not to be confused...

What better way to celebrate of podcasting than mocking a team’s new uniforms? (With apologies to our good friend and Jets fan, Jayson, who we have as a guest on a future episode!) Thankfully, we quickly pivot to lamenting the lame way the nascent was managed. Can we please have spring football that lasts more than 80% of a season? After beating that dead horse, Andrew eventually segues the conv...

Wherein we consider a rebranding as the NFL Outsiders, but instead spend over an hour dissecting the AFC, and in fact mostly the AFC North. Don’t judge, there’s a lot to talk about! We welcome again our good friend, Brian Schmoldt, Cleveland Browns season ticket holder. 14 months after going 0-16, the Browns are poised to take over the AFC North. Andrew almost commits to buying season ticketsâ...

My god, we don’t exactly get right to the point. Who’s your Batman? How does that pertain to football? Well, let us take you on a little journey back to the 1980s and somehow manage to bring it back to the 2019 Super Bowl. Was this really the worst football in recent memory? Here, let us tell you whether that’s the case. We know. We’ll tell you. (Hint: It was neither the worst, nor the best.) In a...

We actually kick things off by talking about an entertaining NCAAF national championship game that showcased upwards of 2 dozen future NFL draft picks. We then move on to recap a wild Wildcard Weekend and make our picks for the remainder of the NFL playoffs. We can’t help ourselves and delve a little into the drama in Pittsburg before teasing a possible episode from the NFL Draft in Nashville. (...

The whole reason we do The Slant and Go is that our good friend, Paul, got tired of listening to us argue about sports at happy hours and suggested we channel that misspent energy into a podcast. In this episode, Paul joins us as we go back to our spiritual (if you can call it that) roots by recording at World Famous Paul & Eddie’s Monte Vista Inn in Cupertino, California. The discussion is a bi...

We had set out to talk mostly (exclusively?) about the Heisman Trophy, but got sidetracked right off the bat by talk about the current state of NFL teams with QB-heavy caps. It’s all good, though. We eventually get to a mock snake draft of former Heisman winners. Let us know who you think won, Andrew or Noor, on Twitter @theslantandgo!

Recorded during Monday Night Football on the eve of the 2018 mid-terms, this episode has nothing to do with either that game or politics. Instead, we spend a bulk of the time going division by division and assessing the question “What have we learned?” through 9 weeks of the regular season.

We somehow managed to record another episode within the season. This is what progress looks like! We welcomed our friend Brian to discuss the Browns first win in two seasons. Also, we dove into the Levoen Bell holdout stand off and our perspectives on the Earl Thomas injury.

4 years and 4 months and we’ve only made 14 episodes? What kind of half-assed podcast is this? No wonder we only have 1 longtime listener. We’re sorry, Craig. We will try to do better. In this episode, Noor & Andrew make predictions and a bet on how the Browns will do. We review Noor’s family league fantasy draft and Andrew waxes poetic about the Seahawks’ new punter.

Brian Schmoldt joins us for a follow-up to our pre-draft musings about his beloved Cleveland Browns. In addition to talking about their draft, we cover the Niners and Seahawks in some detail as well as a couple of the more intriguing picks generally from the draft. We wrap up with a quick discussion about what rookies could make an impact in Fantasy Football this year.