or just pull up the questions with no advance notice. So, God
only knows what I'm about to find here. This is like,
opening that Christmas present that you don't know whether
it's something you wanted or
or, you know, pair of
use sucks. Do you think judgment? This is from PFT p.m.
possible by the way? Do you think judge Robinson is more
likely to completely erase the Watson punishment rather than
reduce it? Because she knows that the Dell will undo her
decision if it's reduced.
I doubt she needs this job. Well,
People love assignments. Like this. First of all, let me just
say
she doesn't want to lose this job. She doesn't wanna get
fired by the league of the Union.
As the end result of her first assignment, after two years of
not doing anything, in this role, as disciplinary officers,
retired federal judge, she's working for a firm. It's good
for her firm to be able to say,
well, did you know,
we've got the NFL NFL PA disciplinary officer
as part of our team
in that kind of stuff impresses people that kind of
Tough attracts clients.
That's just reality. Oh,
I'm impressed. Oh well, I like I like the cut of your jib sir.
I'm going to retain your firm to provide services to my large
and Wealthy Corporation.
So yeah,
she wants this job. Not that she needs the money that comes
from it. She likes the extra boost that it gives to her and
her firm
helps you earn more money elsewhere.
And it just would be embarrassing. Get fired
after one case.
Right? And that's the way to CBA reads after a minimum
two-year
term.
Either side can end the relationship with
the disciplinary officer on 120 days. No, so I guarantee
two ways she gets fired by the NFL
as a result of this case. One
she she declares open season on any documents text messages
testimony whatever as relates to this effort to prove that
owners have gotten
a slap on the wrist or less for misconduct.
To
she finds no discipline whatsoever to Charles Watson
did nothing wrong. No violation. The personal conduct
policy, cutting off the ability of Roger Goodell to impose,
whatever discipline. He would want, she does Heroes things
she's getting fired by the NFL
guarantee. So
yeah, she doesn't need the job. She wants the job and it really
would be a blow to the ego. If at the end result of our first
assignment, she ends up being fired. Now she can get into
a PR battle. She wants to
think about future clients do, it's not a good look for
lawyers to start getting PR battles, but people who pay
them, do their legal work, and there's disagreement about how
that work was done.
Another one for PFT, possibly how can we only NFL defend
the different standards? Apply to players versus oligarchs plan?
Personal conduct policy. Clearly says it's held to
a higher standard. I don't know. They should have never put it.
I'm repeating myself. But
I'm answering the question to. They should have never
put that language in the personal conduct policy. What
does it prove? You're writing a check that you have to honor at
some point.
I think in hindsight
they probably wish they just had a different personal
conduct policy for people who aren't in the Union.
Another one from BMT p.m. post, why do the Browns fans have to
support the circle? The wagons for Deshaun Watson. I'm
a Cowboys fan and I regularly criticized / stop watching
their games when I disagree with their positions on certain
football topics. Well,
I'm not saying it's all Browns fans but some Browns fans
find themselves in a spot where they feel like,
hey, look, this is my team. This Is Us.
I'm supporting my team. My team is made this decision.
I supported, I want Shawn Watson be the quarterback. We haven't
had a quarterback like this ever since Otto Graham. Let's
get on board with the idea that to Sean's our guy. And
now all these people are attacking our guy or attacking
him. They're attacking us. They're attacking me. We're
going to attack back. We don't like this. I get it. I think
it's wrong for the Browns will put fans in that situation.
This is a human nature responds
to the way a situation unfolds for someone who is already
a fan short for fnatic of the Cleveland Browns.
So I understand why Brown.
As fans are reacting the way they are.
And I have to just shrug at it, when it, when they come at me
and say, I understand why you're doing what you're doing,
it's not your fault. It's Jimmy houses fault and
it's to Sean Watson's fault. It's Watson's fault for
engaging in the behavior. It's Haslam's fault for not saying
you got to settle these cases. Before you become a member of
this team, and it's Watson's fault for not settling the case
before he became a member of the team. Because that
put the burden at that point on the Browns fans who are
inclined to defend him and the team, no matter what to defend
him. And the team no matter what
Neil watches pfft,
but the usfl championship airing this weekend and big
announced that it will have a second season. Do you think it
has a real shot to continue on in deference to earlier being
terminated Neil?
XFL is coming back next year and it's coming back. Two
months earlier, is there enough space for two in. This is
the first spring League since the original X fo monthly recurring
except usfl excuse me
since the original usfl
to make it to a second season.
The first FL dead during the first year XFL, 2.0 dead during
the first year,
not
Due to anything, they did was the pandemic aaf implodes
during the first year. So this is a crawl walk
walk a little more confidently,
race walk
jog lightly, jog aggressively
run situation for the usfl. There's a long way to go.
It is a multi-year process. And I think p is, will
the legalized betting Market
expand sufficiently enough to have People
who want to bet on usfl games and therefore, have skin in
the game and want to watch them, that's the key.
California is trying to get legalized gambling and place
Florida. Texas. Get some of the big States to join all
the other states at some point. Hey, we want
we got a bet. We want to bet.
You want to bet on football. There's no football and battle.
Oh wait. Here's football. There's XFL. Here's usfl. It
basically becomes like a table of the casino. It's an Open
Table, where you can go and bet that's the key.
Can they survive?
Long enough for the legalized. Bedding demand to drive
the interest. Where that the numbers go up
the ratings, go up, the money goes up. That's the key. In my
opinion,
you'll watch the PFT again Apples to Apples of what we
know about each situation and in like of the DeShaun Watson
leak. Suspension of, at least one year, what? Length of
suspension Woodcraft Snyder and Jones have faced. If they were
truly having the same standard,
we don't know enough about what they did, how they violated
the rules to come to that funnel.
Flourish. I think this is a brilliant effort by the union.
Not to try to get these guys in trouble. The idea is
to minimize the punishment that would be ultimately, imposed on
DeShaun Watson.
You know what? Just pfft with a football question arising out
of DeShaun Watson situation, considering that Watson likely
will not play this year, which team wins the AFC North, it's
hard, not to say the Bengals, but
the Ravens are good.
The Steelers are going to be better than people realize
and depending upon who the Browns get to play quarterback,
they're good enough to be competitive to
dr. J 144, if you're a player on the Browns, are you angry
that you're likely wasting your to of your career now, playing
with a backup quarterback? No offense until group set, zero
chance to win a Super Bowl this year. Ownership traded for
a guy who is
About and simultaneously made Baker, angry. It's still to be
determined.
Now, there's a thought out there. Maybe they end up with
Jimmy Garoppolo and maybe they do, if they find out sooner
than later, Watson's out for the whole year, maybe they do.
So
there's still a chance for this to work out and, you know,
there's a promise that Watson's coming eventually.
NFL leads, if you seen the Paul McCartney get 80 years old on
Saturday, you should. It's incredible. I have not seen it.
I will check it out.
You watch the PFD. How long do you think Snyder can
essentially hide on his super yacht without appearing before
Congress? This fascinates me
and I keep checking the time because we're having lunch
here, PFT crew is in town and I'm supposed to meet them for
lunch. I'm going to be tardy,
I'm going to be late.
Hopefully they'll
they'll
get started without me and I can catch up when I get there,
but This whole superhero Thing, it occurred to me. I was on
the score of this morning with Molly and ha, and they asked me
about this issue with Daniel Snyder,
not accepting service of the subpoena. And there's this
semantics argument between the US House, oversight committee,
he won't accept service,
he refuses to accept service and Snyder. Spokesperson saying
he's not refusing to appear. Well, there's a middle ground,
he's not refusing to appear. I just hadn't been subpoenaed
yet. Well, I haven't excepted service. I'm on my yacht
in the middle of nowhere. It's great to have a super yacht.
I thought it was just a trophy.
No it's got a functional purpose when
the heat gets a little too hot
you get on your yacht, you pull up the anchor
and you got international waters, and you're untouchable,
no summons, no subpoena nothing.
Nothing you don't have to worry about a process server showing
up on your super yacht when you're out to sea. So,
brilliant by Daniel Snyder and maybe other owners who have
a superior officer. Same reason.
Arizona, UK AKA Tom Marshall did you take a photo of the PFT
gang together like
when all the head coaches get together
everybody? Everybody do that tonight. I need to go get
an Andy Reid, Hawaiian shirt for the. The
photo. It will be
not nearly as many people, it's just five, but
maybe we'll do that tonight.
That's a good thought Tom.
All right, I gotta wrap this up.
All top 97 is Texans fan. It's been a rough three years. Can
you outline the difference between a well-run franchise,
and a dysfunctional? One,
how many franchise get out of being dysfunctional? That is
too complicated of a question to answer right here. Let me
take that one under advisement,
maybe add it to the Future PFT Oto. Write about it at some point
there. I do have some thoughts,
it's just not conducive to this
setting especially as I'm trying to
to wrap this up.
Manuel Villa AKO top 97, Howard potential injury to Watson in
the off season preseason impacting suspension. We have
to be cleared to return before serving or candy suspension
take place while recovering
from the injury. Yeah, I mean, if he would get injured in
training camp,
If he tears an ACL, for example, and is out for
the year.
I get suspended for the year. He just doesn't get paid his
contracted to push back. I don't think it factors into
anything. If you would get injured, I don't think they
would say, well, you know, the year you
were injured does count were going to suspend you for
another year. I think it would just be treated as simultaneous
coincidence.
Atlee Dale, UK. Hello from England, with DeShaun Watson
here in just, starting how far can the nflpa go. If there is
clear evidence, he gets punished way more harshly than
owners. Can they go to the real Court saying in a fellow has
broken? Its own rules that? That is the challenge here and
that's
what makes it very difficult. And I need to wrap on this or
some other questions here, but if I didn't get to your
question, ask it again tomorrow.
But
what was the point 0 0?
I think the nflpa understands. It is very difficult to go to
court.
The Tom, Brady case, which ultimately failed succeeded in
federal court. Manhattan
failed at the US appeals court for the second circuit, which
has jurisdiction over New York and one or two other states.
It became very clear through that opinion that the NFL's
process can't be challenging Court. That's why is equally in
2017
tried to file suit
in Texas before the NFL could invoke
jurisdiction in Manhattan which would be subject and it's what
I was talking about earlier past decisions become
precedent, almost they don't and they tie the hands of
the Court. What would have been argued and what ultimately was
argued in New York was hey,
Brady case, controls this one. There's nothing that can be done.
Is he through Elliot try to avoid that and initially was
successful. But then the problem was he filed his
lawsuit too early.
So as long as the NFL has its paperwork ready
and is ready to go to court to enforce its decision
and files there in New York as soon as it issues, its
decision,
it's Untouchable.
The only sliver, the only chance
to try to beat the NFL
would be to pick a form
where you The W favorable to you and get the case filed. The
instant, the decision
is made by the NFL and before the NFL
has filed, its lawsuit, it's basically a race to
the courthouse or
you're going to be parked at the clerk's office
and you're ready to get your case stamped as filed,
if they still do it that way. The moment
the decision is issued and who's got the advantage there
for comes down to that race. Who's got the advantage? The
advantage goes.
Cause the person who's making the decision, they can do it
simultaneously. The moment, the decision is issued boom, they
can't beat me. You can't beat me for trying to win the race.
Hey, decisions entered. All right, follow the court file
the lawsuit, to defend the decision. So that's
the problem. You can't win
and whatever happens. As a result of this process.
I mean, they can try to go to court if they want to very slim
chance of winning. So we'll see how it Lisa, that's it for
today.
Appreciate the questions, appreciate time.
We'll do it again tomorrow. And if you ask a question of that,
ask it again tomorrow look like there was some good ones are,
maybe I'll just go back and
select the ones from today that I want to try to answer
tomorrow if I remember to do it tomorrow morning, I who knows
I may be dragging a little bit, the PFT Crews going to be here
and there may be some
some alcoholic beverages consumed. But I will try to
drink in moderation because my duty is to you tomorrow PFT OT.
We'll see you then have a great day.