Nfl.com here. Okay. Here we go.
Is this egregious
as an owner? Telling it to head coach. I'll pay you 100,000
dollars to lose the game. I mean, come on.
This is where it to me. The NFL has the issue,
you know, we haven't even gotten to this.
We got an owner and we got people that are witnesses, that
offered a coach to lose games.
Hundred thousand dollar prize every time he loses
and now we're going to
we're going to suspend the player again again.
Pliers like to your point. We were there always investigated
and everything's you know, and then when it comes to
the owners, it's just that we're not going to investigate that
it's not a big deal. Who cares
where the owners don't do that to us. We're Oleg arcs. How
dare you investigate us. The investigations of her peasants.
I mean, what how they're going to handle that? Because that's
way worse
than the $1500 Calvin Ridley. Bet.
I mean, come on.
And that's the, that's the next move. I want to see from
the NFL is where they go with that. That conversation
young Jedi. Your training is complete.
I was wondering if you would come to that conclusion, but
I am disappointed because it was the headline story on PFT for
about 8 hours last night, which tells me you weren't reading
the website and we have written about it. We have thought about
it, but
you're right. You're right. Look, Calvin Ridley,
includes the Falcons in some parlays and picks them to win
and there's no evidence that he's got any influence
whatsoever. Over the game at all. He's in Florida on
the non-football illness list, right? Stephen Ross
owns the team Stephen Ross wants to lose Steven Ross
offers six figures
per loss to Brian Flores.
These are all allegations. I know, I know they have to prove it.
Are they going to go after this the way that they went after
Calvin rid, right. Are they going
to punish Stephen Ross in a commensurate way?
If this is true, and I think this has been universally
accepted. I Heard much push back against this. He's got to
sell the team. If this is true. Now, the problem for the NFL is
and see, this is what happens when everything you do is
driven by PR. Everything they do is driven by PR. How are
people going to react to this situation, you know, personal
conduct policy. It's all PR. And this gambling stuff.
I understand the Integrity of the game is implicated.
But if you catch one of your owners doing something like
this, you have to ask yourself if we make a big deal out of
this. What's going to happen. Yeah, right. Well, what are
the consequences, right? What is this? Owing to be the Scandal
that gets Congress to
create a federal agency
that has oversight of our business,
and tries to tell us how to run our business and, and sends
people in to inspect. And and looks at all sorts of stuff. We
don't want them looking at, not that we know there's anything
in those wrong, but you
know, you get somebody's into the justify, their existence,
by finding something that you're doing that. You
shouldn't be doing TV didn't realize it. That's what the NFL
is trying to avoid. They need to set that aside though. And
do a fair investigation. You've got.
You've got Brian Flores.
Alleging that this
offer was made, you've got an unnamed witness as reported by
NFL, Network, partially owned by Stephen, Ross, himself that
heard this.
And I've heard too many times. Now, this idea that Ross is
going to say he was joking to make me think that
the old hundred thousand dollars lose a game joke. Haha.
That's silly guy. Ha ha ha. Oh man, he's funny.
Yeah. So, so anyway, if you're going to throw Ridley out of
the league for a year and take away his own. Only source of
sports-related income or significant compensation 11
million dollars gone
delayed for a year, assuming the, the Falcons even keep him
when he comes back, right? You know it was there
before Stephen Ross to sell his team. He's going to walk away
between four and five billion and he's still got his real
estate company now, he still, he still could be prosecuted
under the sports betting act. He could still be prosecuted in
that would have some real consequences. But
but yeah, what's the NFL going to do
about Ross? If they're Going to so quickly. And decisively
throw the book at Calvin Ridley. That's a fair question.
And it's funny because some Dolphins fans. I raised that
point and dolphins fans are like, oh, I'm surprised you
hate the Dolphins like dude. You probably should
want a different owner at this point. I mean, I think you
should get on board with me. Look at the past decade,
probably a good idea for you to be jostling for Change and that
gets back to the point. We've been making for the past month
or so all that. You need to be an owner NFL team is enough
money to buy one. One, there's no test you have to take.
There's no requirement. You know, the game, there's no
obligation to be a good Steward. You just need to have
the money
and, you know, maybe that when this is all said and done
the NFL and Stephen Ross, we're looking for someone with enough
money to buy the team from him. If they do a fair and complete
investigation. I don't want to prejudge it.
There's enough smoke out there to make me wonder if there's
a fire burning at the bottom of the Brian Flores alligator.
Well, yeah, I mean, you know just again I just I, as
an ex-player and guy that's been involved in the NFL. It's just
what I do. Don't
like it's just the players or
police harder, you know, they do. I mean, they need to police
these owners through this whole thing. Just as much, the owners
got big mouths, they talk to their other rich friends and,
hey, this guy's hurt. And this guy's going to play this week,
more than that guy. I mean, the the there's probably more
spreading of inside information from that group than anybody.