Sep 13, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min · 11 segments
Steve questions Trajan Langdon's job security as the President of Basketball Operations for the Detroit Pistons and lays out the reasons as to why. Andy fires back and responds to what these…
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Yá'át'ééh, Steve Pelletier, Y'nishé, Ma'índé, Sh'kíj'ni, Nish'li, B'il'ig'ára, B'ash'chí'n, K'in'l'chí'n'i, D'ash'ch'é, B'il'ig'ára, D'ash'ch'ná'le.

As we've said before, we don't like to just do whatever every week, you know, the weekly Jalen Duren check-in pod.

Andy, let everybody know where they can find you online before we get started.

But to me, there are a few things that over the course of this offseason have started to indicate that, you know, I think Trajan Langdon's seat should be a lot hotter than it is.

And there'll be one thing here at the end that I'm like, you know, if this happens, I think the talk of firing should be happening right now.

This team won 60 games, right? That's the main reason against this whole question and why this sounds preposterous to some.

Where were we two seasons ago with the whole Monty debacle and all that stuff? It's like, why would this even be a thing? So I do want to put the argument forward at the beginning of, like, why this is even a thing.

But before we get into that, Andy, I just want to, because I didn't ask you this before we started or even when I proposed this, but what was your reaction to my idea of like, hey, let's do a pot around, like maybe Trace should be fired.
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Yá'át'ééh, Steve Pelletier, Y'nishé, Ma'índé, Sh'kíj'ni, Nish'li, B'il'ig'ára, B'ash'chí'n, K'in'l'chí'n'i, D'ash'ch'é, B'il'ig'ára, D'ash'ch'ná'le.

As we've said before, we don't like to just do whatever every week, you know, the weekly Jalen Duren check-in pod.

Andy, let everybody know where they can find you online before we get started.

But to me, there are a few things that over the course of this offseason have started to indicate that, you know, I think Trajan Langdon's seat should be a lot hotter than it is.

And there'll be one thing here at the end that I'm like, you know, if this happens, I think the talk of firing should be happening right now.

This team won 60 games, right? That's the main reason against this whole question and why this sounds preposterous to some.

Where were we two seasons ago with the whole Monty debacle and all that stuff? It's like, why would this even be a thing? So I do want to put the argument forward at the beginning of, like, why this is even a thing.

But before we get into that, Andy, I just want to, because I didn't ask you this before we started or even when I proposed this, but what was your reaction to my idea of like, hey, let's do a pot around, like maybe Trace should be fired.