hit on the fat of the fact of like what a blow. This is
the Falcons. I was going to kind of just take her to the field for
a second. Mike just a little bit there. If you don't mind,
go ahead, you know,
in the fact of I mean here we are the Atlanta Falcons.
I mean, it's a big blow to their football team. Yeah, you didn't
have them last year.
Arthur Smith, you know, inaugural season head coach.
You don't have one of your best players because he has his, you
know, some personal issues. He's got to step away from
the game.
But this is a guy that's a superstar.
A budding Superstar.
Just waiting to break out. I mean we see what he did in
the 2020 season, you know, and here he is, you know, not going to
be able to play
or even worse, maybe of Atlanta was thinking, maybe we should
move on, or do something like that. They can even trade him
now, you know, so it's a huge blow to the Falcons
organization,
whether they were going to keep them or trade them now that,
you know, if they're going to keep them yet. Now, you don't
have one of the more talented receivers in football and your
team to go along with pits and Matt Ryan, who's coming down
the home stretch.
His career, but even if you work at a move on, I mean he
was going to come and some big-time assets
and how you're going to get a first-round pick and then some
for somebody like Calvin Ridley and that's that's, you know,
a big blow to a team that's kind of interns
transition. Right now, down there.
There was a report yesterday at the Falcons turned down trade,
inquiries for Calvin Ridley because of the investigation.
Yeah, you know, on the surface. Oh boy. Those Falcons are doing
things the right way. Well, two things. First of all,
all you got to do is make a call to the league office and
they're going to Tell you now. So that's right. Don't make
that call and shame on talking. Secondly, if the Falcons would
have done that
if the Falcons would have traded him, knowing
that
he was facing the suspension, and the team to, which they
were trading him. Didn't think to call the league office. The
NFL would study fact. Well,
I'm just had, the Falcons can never do business with anyone
here, right? Nobody would trust them ever doing the right thing
for their own best interest because you pull a scam like
that. You aren't pulling off any more trades in the future.
You're making a lifetime enemy and Terry Fontenot
can forget about getting hired by someone else when his job in
Atlanta ends. And it's someday. We'll, that's how it goes. So
let's not act like the Falcons are going to be right next to
Mother Teresa. Over the fact that they didn't
that, they didn't engage in these trade talks.
They couldn't have,
if they would have traded him without telling the other team,
if the other team did it, unwittingly that would have
been a horrific outcome for the Falcons and for the individuals
involved. What
would have been a permanent scar on?
Them moving forward what we know no doubt. No doubt. Well
what's like social media has been saying they can do you
want to put out a tweet asking what they thinks? Affair?
Suspension,
eight-game, 18 games? Something like that. I mean, that to me.
Yeah, again, I don't know. You got you got you got the Law and
Order. You got the Law and Order crowd, the things he
should never play
ever again, and there's no Nuance to it. You gamble on
football in your shut down and I understand there's a bright
line there. I just think that the circumstances
of released.
And the NFL's broader circumstances of making 270
million. This past year off of gambling, and expecting to make
a billion a year, by the end of the decade, that just that
muddies, the waters a little bit that introduces, this
concept of hypocrisy. And
I always Advocate a more nuanced view of everything this
whole black and white and, right and wrong. And there is
no gray. This plenty of gray, life happens in that. Gray,
life would be a hell of a lot easier. If everything was black
and white and people try to make too many things, black
and white life is not that complicated. And it's okay.
It's okay. Okay, to have to stop and think about something.
I think some people just don't want to stop and think it's
like, oh, yeah. Well,
I got suspended for years. Damn it. Okay, fine. I move on. Move
on to my next issue that I'm going to think about ya know
how to make a judgment about move on, right? Make
a judgment. That guy's an idiot. Move on and then yes, and
no, where's my neck out? He deserved I know got what he
deserved next man up. Yeah, unfortunately.