on the PFT Twitter page specifically related to this
issue. I'm going to scroll through here and see
if
if there's anything else that stands out how should to of
feel today. That's a question from Neil watches PFT. There is
now a report that Ross has been actively trying to get Brady
for three years prior to and during
to his tenure, as the Dolphins. Starting quarterback. Yeah. And
you throw in the effort to get to Sean Watson last year
to a has been unwanted. Added by Stephen. Ross
tool was the guy that
we initially heard the tank for to a mantra for before he broke
his hip in the 2019 college football season.
That's when Stephen Ross, pivoted to Joe burrow
and to ended up being the guy that was left at number five,
and they should have just taken Justin Herbert
at number five. Instead of number 6,
Your watch is PFT. Also says that the tampering policy
indicates that there should be compensation for the offended
teams. Should the Patriots Saints and Buccaneers get any
recompense. That's a good question. I mean it looks like
it's over.
It looks like nothing's going to happen there,
but you do have three victims
of the tampering.
The Saints, the Patriots in the Buccaneers, and maybe one of
the reasons that Sean Payton, quit his job with the Saints
and he thought he was going to land with the dolphins. Maybe
if he knew he wasn't going to get that Dolphins job,
he would have stayed in New Orleans
for another year. We don't know the answer to that question,
but it's entirely possible. The Saints. Lost their head coach
this year because he thought he was going to resign and then
resurface
as coach of the Dolphins,
Tom Marshall should Tom. Brady, be criticized for allowing
himself to be tampered with. It doesn't look good on him. That
talks got so far. And I said that earlier.
I think that he should be criticized and hopefully he
will be criticized, and hopefully he'll be asked some
tough questions by Buccaneers reporters it. Do a lot of
fawning of Tommy, not all of them,
not all of them
but
there's a certain amount of tiptoeing around Tommy that
happens. He needs to be asked some tough questions because as
the league has found it,
he was talking to the Dolphins about playing for them during
the 2021 season when he was playing for the Buccaneers
if I'm a Buccaneers fan. I'm pissed off and I want to hear
exactly what was going on. Even though as we know and Tom
Brady's a set of it himself.
90% of the time what he says isn't how he actually feels
Terry Gensler. How much fun do you have reading the comments
on your post about this story from February? Maybe I should
go back and look at those and retweet some of those but that
would be Petty.
I'm not
I'm not Petty.
I'm not
Nathan Jacobson. If to it isn't the guy this year, their hunt
for a franchise quarterback in the draft next year. Got a lot
harder. Do you think this will put off Tom, Brady and Sean
Payton from ever joining the franchise? Well,
I still think Brady, or I thought Brady was in play for
next year, but now it may be that
if he decides to keep playing in 2023,
he just doesn't even consider the Dolphins. But now that we
already know that he talked to them, I don't know how much
more damage can be done. It's not like if he
Joins the Dolphins people are going to say, aha. We knew you
talk to the Dolphins. Where do you know?
So, I think he's still play for the Dolphins. You know, six
months from now is basically six years from now. A lots
going to happen between now and the end of the football season.
I don't think it closes the door.
Rob taglianetti points out. It's weird to write off Ross's
comments as not serious. And in the same breath command Flores
for not letting them affect his effort to win,
that, that's the problem here and that gets back to what
I was saying. Flores was the hero he saved Ross
and he blew the whistle on what Ross was doing.
It just feels like there should be something more for Ross,
because if you truly want to deter, this kind of behavior,
when you catch, someone in the act and you have a coach, who
is willing to do the right thing,
by, refusing to go along with it and then by standing up and
being counted, that's something that needs to have full and
complete punishment of the owner
because they're probably plenty of other cases. Where
the coach, as I said earlier, just goes along.
All right, let's see what else we have here.
We've probably cover
Covered most of everything that we can, here we go football.
God was this strategically announce now, to be glossed
over by the Watson news?
I don't think it's to be glossed over by Watson. I think
it's to be subsumed within Watson so that we see the NFL
punishing an owner. At the same time, the NFL is deciding
whether to reject a six game suspension of DeShaun Watson,
and seek more
from the NFL itself.
I think this is a great way for us to
be able to say, see they punish owner.
2. That's what I think
this is and it doesn't change my feeling that the NFL is
going to appeal,
judge Robinson's decision
to the NFL and that the NFL is going to impose a higher
suspension.
Let's see what else we have here. And we appreciate any of
the tweets where folks are acknowledging that we were
right. All along that it does. Look at it, I mean
it if you're human,
when you have a moment like that it does feel kind of good
to be right when you were doubted by people who had no
idea what was really going on and they just doubted it
because they're Buccaneers fans and
they don't want to hear
that. Their quarterback didn't want to play for their team
anymore. Did it truly was some
Decision. He made to Simply come back and play for
the Buccaneers not that his other door was closed. He just chose
to come back to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
All right,
this is William Buckskin. Do you do they expect us to
actually believe their conclusion about tank? And
considering the rest of the report? It seems like a blatant
cover for the owners and it definitely
does. And I think that's the thing that needs to resonate
from this.
He tried to tank,
he engaged in attempted tanking and, but for Brian Brian
Flores, he would have engaged in actual tanking. And but for
Brian Flores, we wouldn't know
about attempted or actual
tanking
All right.
Let me do one more and then let's wrap it up. While two
more.
Picks 2004 from Playmakers. We know head coaching hires or
a done deal before the old coaches fired with them?
Explicitly punishing that behavior. In this case, do you
think the process will improve and fix some issues
that the Rooney Rule had failed to or will owners
just get more shady and secretive with head coaching
hiring? And look this in a roundabout way. It makes Brian
Flores, this
lawsuit stronger. As it relates to the race discrimination
issue because the tampering
doesn't just violate the tampering rule. If I elates
the Rooney Rule they went out and line Up.
A white head coach.
at a time when
they possibly hadn't even engaged in a proper or any
search, it just it undermines everything. The league is
trying to do to ensure diversity
when it comes to
head coaching searches and inclusiveness
when it comes to looking for a coach, not picking a guy
and secretly getting the deal done
and then putting everything into motion.
So,
I think, what's going to happen is
there's a league meeting next week for the purposes of
Approving. The purchase of the Broncos by Rob Walton Greg
penalty. May want
to think twice after this.
But
someone told me that there's an expectation that the league
office and specifically the commissioner is going to read
the riot act
to
the owners next week. And the question then is,
how long does this last? Is it really going to change the way
things are done? I think it will for a short period of time
but there's too much tampering to make it all go away. They
Can't police it in every instance,
there will be occasions where it falls through the cracks.
And sometimes like this. It becomes kind of a compromise
punishment when you can't punish him for tanking. You got
him for something else, one more.
Beats and hops. Why is there no punishment for tampering for
Brady and Peyton? They were active participants in this
the tampering rules. Don't apply to them,
they're allowed to be tampered with. It's a bad look
and as I said earlier, it may make Sean Payton
radioactive for 2023,
but
there's no violation
in being the one who is tampered with they should
possibly consider expanding the tampering policy
to make it.
A violation not just to be the tamperer, but to be
the temporary to be the one who willingly goes along with it.
And doesn't
Report it and engages
in the communications,
in an effort to try to facilitate
the tampering. It would require a negotiation with the NFL
players Association to make players responsible for
tampering. But
there is no Union for the coaches.
You can just make it part of the policy unilaterally without
notice. Here we go.
And it does make me wonder. And there was already a concern
whether or not someone at the league office wouldn't want
Sean Payton back in, after the bounty scandal.
This may make it harder for him to ever get back in.
We'll see.