the NFL and the Players Association have several lawsuits based of concussions
now
the reported payments are 765
million dollars but in my opinion and Eddie George is a penny then Peter
King's opinion
%uh the owners flat-out won this one your bio
via first-round knockout you could easily say no pun intended
kinda so the injury settlement $765 million dollars over 4,000 plus retired
players
the injury settlements and medical benefits are for the retired obviously
now here's the big thing for the NFL they have no admission of liability from
the NFL
and their properties so that means that and add another facet to it very quickly
is that the NFL does not have to say that they had prior knowledge knowing
up concussions and what could lead to concussions that's also pretty good
thus you have a settlement the NFL not release findings a brain related
injuries and then negotiated for two-plus months before I continue
an obvious when for the owners in this in this instance yes
an obvious when and well I'm Tennessee as how because
above the settlement no course now this is kind of Hush money. some people call
you
doesn't mean the public doesn't talk about anymore I mean you have this
certain proof uncertain
documents that can now be concealed I get my when the public talk about that
some sense
at Durban's call when because down now not to talk about
the potential down and we'll head injuries well public is still a talk
about it so I see is a win but not as like a
now they've they have a clean slate no one's gonna bother them anymore still
gonna get the office
here's why it's a huge when so they're gonna reportedly pay
each team but thirty million dollars over the next
New Years according to Peter King have great writer for sports illustrated I
come you know what each team
on average took in last year moneywise revenuers
$280 million dollars so they're paying no I don't know
10 percent of that maybe is a huge win as jake would say
a huge jewitt for the owners I me they left their net they have to pay some
not much not much at all it's an afterthought yep
and I'm again I mean all move we expect anything different
I but then when you have this kind of money you the wrong number seven was 72
67 Celia
we feel that number on the seawall guys if that have been affected by the
families and the you may go through that the month but the max is $5 million
depending on I think it was for Alzheimer's yet will suffer from
Alzheimer's verses then
dementia is down the three I think the will be if you die to CT its morn
so again they're not at again it their families
will get something for but a few me at five million dollars is
as you okay but it's something for them I get it
but in the grand scheme love it that that's gonna make your one just calm
down a bit I'll
so you just part of something really important was the thing that dan Patrick
on a ride and
Eddie they were interviewing Eddie George a guy who has carry the ball
300-plus times at least in three seasons i mean
East season and he made 8 fantastic point about how big a when this was for
the owners
so those guys who are suffering from Alzheimer's and depression and
you know that the players that he died from CT E those families
or players who are still living may get 100000 200,000 so what are they going to
use therefore they're gonna use it for medical benefits
or they're gonna use it to pay off a loan on the house I mean it might not
even go into their medical benefits at all and plus its
chump change for the owners and Eddie Eddie George made that point not mine
and is a brilliant point in this little depressing
because we live we live in our live in a bubble butt were in the level we think
home
that's up to $65 million dollars people think that but it will really go days
like that's the thing
yeah and what that the league itself I mean I i've no they're not the ones
paying out directly
its to the owners but the league in will go to the story later
billion dollars so it's a billion-dollar Lee
yeah you I think it up eighteens made over a billion its
amazing so what would you think about it most terms was I think anyone does no
one thinks
this they're worth over a billion dollars is a billion-dollar Lee
so that's nothing it's nothing big about five dollars
think about Lutz's you just bought today five-dollar footlong
and it's a it's over yes I'll
all styles making that stuff bother me if I just by 5 dollar footlong
would you take that is let me ask you this the NFL
Roger Goodell RA an incredibly harsh microcell right for good reason
biggest all this out as much as they wanted to
they could to try and and nickel-and-dime the Players Association
as much as possible
because they're not losing much but not losing anything and if anything the
players settled
because this is probably the highest that they got it to 760
7-under 65 nine dollars the NFL really did
have to settle yet they could have stalled out more but
you know what the big thing obviously was the terms and then
into los it was that the NFL doesn't have to say that they had
prior knowledge and data done that they didn't run studies and and all this
stuff and it doesn't have to be brought up again and it's going to be impossible
for at least ten plus years for new players that suffer from
the symptoms to bring it up again because it has lost a business move is
an MX
as he said every year the the the revenue income
increases I what fifteen persons like that s all I got was up
so we can you think about to euthanize this keeps increasing
we just made this much more money no will pay off for the next
before to plan for future yeah so obviously I
business