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Trevor Lawrence probably can't save the Jaguars. In fact, the highest-drafted QBs almost never win Super Bowls for their original teams. #NFLDraft scouts and experts? They get HALF of their most important picks wrong. Which is why, after 5 years in the NFL, high draft picks are just as likely to be out of football as they are to be in the Pro Bowl. The NFL Draft is one big myth. No wonder a former NFL Executive of the Year called the process "completely broken." Luckily, the Flems are here to...

To celebrate Dave's 20th Anniversary at ESPN, Ally expertly breaks down a classic story from the ESPN Archives. The Marathon of Their Lives ran in October 2013 on ESPN and is about the 26-mile marker of the Chicago Marathon where in the very same race, a fire-fighter from North Carolina collapsed and died and then, a few hours later and in the exact same spot, a mother who was running the marathon while nine months pregnant, went into labor and eventually gave birth. The award-winning story t...

Inspired by the amazing 2021 Minnesota High School All Hockey Hair Team, the Flems select the best hairdos from the NCAA Tourney. Who had the best flow on the court? Did Ally really get paid this week to Google cute basketball players? And is there an actual connection between great players and great hair? Don't worry, the Flems will mullet all over for you. From Baylor's Mullet Bros to the Gonzaga 'stache, Miley's "pullet" and Tyger's epic style, the Flems will show you who is truly a cut ab...

ESPN senior writer, host of the SEC Network's Marty & McGee and best-selling author Ryan McGee joins the Flems to talk about his new book: Sidelines and Bloodlines and commiserate with Ally about working with your dad. There are endless, insightful jaw-dropping tales from Dr. Jerry McGee's long, illustrious career as a top college football referee, the McGee family's connection to college football mascot royalty (UGA I), predictions for the SEC in 2021, memories from Ryan and Ally about U...

Forget your busted NCAA Brackets and join the Flems as they count down the 64 greatest Taylor Swift songs of all time while singing their hearts out and Stan'ing on everything TayTay. You thought basketball brackets were hard? Try choosing between Shake It Off and Breathe or Love Story and Bad Blood or You Belong With Me (Dave) and Dear John (Ally). Who is your NCTayTay Final Four? Don't worry, in the ultimate NCTayTay Brackets the ITO crew has a Blank Space, baby ... and they'll write your n...

After waiting until the last second to fill out their NCAA brackets (just like everybody else), the Flems use the expert advice they got from Chad Millman in Timeout 38 - along with a curated collection of data, inside info and gut instinct - to pick every last game in the NCAA Tournament. If you listen along we promise this will be the most fun you've ever had filling out your brackets at the last second. You'll get two very different approaches (Dave: over-thinking, Ally: intuition), along ...

The Flems welcome their first celebrity guest to the show - The Action Network's Chad Millman - and just in time to help Ally and everyone else fill out their NCAA tournament brackets. It's not Bracketology, it's: Bracket-Ally-gy. Dave and Chad have been friends and colleagues for 25 years, since sharing an office together as reporters at Sports Illustrated, so along with some great tips to help with your NCAA brackets (and his Final Four picks), Chad also shares a few classic war stories fro...

The Flems take an exclusive look behind the scenes on Dave's latest ESPN story on 17-year-old Kobe Bryant's epic 1996 pre-draft workout for the Lakers that launched a legend, revitalized Showtime and changed the course of NBA history. Our own pod prodigy (Ally) shows some serious NBA knowledge delving into every aspect of Kobe's iconic workout: how he dominated Michael Cooper, one of the greatest defenders in NBA history, how, after seeing the teenage Mamba in action for only 20 minutes...

Ooops, we did it again. The Flems break down yet another bizarre documentary, this time it's Framing Britney Spears, the #FreeBritney movement and everything having to do with the Holy Spear-it herself. After overcoming the funniest show interruption in podcasting history - we do record in a sorority house, after all - the Flems talk about all the media and men behaving badly (we're looking at you Justin Timberlake), how the doc falls short in places, the details behind Ally's future conserva...

With the show's audience exploding in Germany, Switzerland, Australia, Israel, UK, Russia, Netherlands, Ireland, Africa and more, the wildly popular Davey Tries Stuff series goes international with a taste test of truly bizarre KitKat flavors sent across the globe to the ITO headquarters by a listener in Japan. "Kitto Katsu" means (roughly) "good luck" in Japan and the Flems will need plenty of it to get through KitKat flavors like Green Bean, Corn, Lychee, Matcha, Champagne and something tha...