this to me and Sheree niue. And I haven't really talked about
it. Much more than trade text messages on our broader chain,
the Cowboys Scandal, the popped up on Wednesday
that he has pain.com had been studying for weeks. Apparently
Don Van Atta Junior had the byline on the story. Rich
Dalrymple, the former PR executive who abruptly retired,
a few weeks ago
Accused by multiple cheerleaders of
using His cell phone device hiding, partially behind a wall
to videotape them. While they were changing clothes, that was
stunning to me the 2.4 million dollar payout reportedly
by the Cowboys, the finding by the Cowboys of no wrongdoing.
I can't reconcile those two. You don't pay out 2.4 million.
If there was no wrongdoing,
if that's the case. Hey Cowboys, give me 2.4 million if
you're giving away free money. Let's have some free money
because if there wasn't something that happened that
shouldn't have happened.
The dumbest 2.4 million they've ever paid, unless it's just
hush money, where they don't want the controversy at all.
They don't want the allegations at all. Even if they believe
the allegations aren't true. They just don't want that
hovering over their team,
which is, is one of the reasons why claims like that have value
from the perspective of finding a lawyer to represent you
because some teams, some organization. Some companies
will pay that money
just to not have to fight the fight publicly, even if they
win it. But Shireen would stunned. Me was the position by
the NFL and
And it's like clockwork. Now
when there's a topic, the NFL doesn't want to talk about,
I send one email.
They ignore me. I sent two emails. They ignore me.
I sent three emails,
I get something.
And what I got yesterday was
from Brian McCarthy. NFL spokesman. We will decline
comment as this is a club matter,
which makes no sense. I've heard from people connected to
the league, people who used to work for teams, people who are
part of the broader structure of what covers the league and
talks about the league.
It makes No sense
to just shrug this off as a club matter, the entire
Washington, Commander Scandal is a club matter. If you want
to look at it that way, everything that happens
within the confines of a team,
is a club matter.
The idea is the league.
In certain cases takes jurisdiction. We just heard
the commissioner nine days ago, say we can't let Washington
investigate itself. No and you can't let Dallas investigate
itself
because they may be inclined to cover it up completely. We
don't even know whether or not this was reported to
the league. Either when the claims were made
or when the money was paid,
the personal conduct policy has some pretty strong language in
there, contemplating that these things will be reported. So
the leak can take action and it is a league matter Rich. Dalrymple
would have been subject to discipline by the league under
the personal conduct policy or maybe
others. Maybe wasn't making that video for himself. I'm
just saying I'm not, I'm not saying that that's true,
but wouldn't you want to investigate
whether or not? He was a lone wolf
or whether or not, it was some sort of a prank.
Others knew about
or whether somebody asked him to do it.
If you don't investigate it, you don't know
and and I'm astounded by this. But, but this is,
this is the NFL, in my opinion,
doing everything, they can to keep this from becoming a thing.
You legitimize it by investigating it, you turn it
into a bigger thing than it. Otherwise would be by
investigating it and I can't believe they're going to get
away with it. But one of these are going to get away with it
is. Nobody else is saying anything about it.
Well, this is it, this platform
peacock. PFT p.m. PFT live pro football talk.com. We're
the only one saying how in the hell
is the NFL getting away with not investigating this?
Yeah, and I'll say this, I rich and I go back a long way.
I would consider us to be friends or colleagues or however you
want to say it.
It was a surprise to me when this
issue came out. I never would have thought this happened. I do
sort of take offense with
the Cowboys saying there was no wrongdoing.
He, they say he entered the the cheerleaders room. He used his
keycard that much. We know that's proof that the video We
don't know if he took it or didn't take it. So I'm not even
going to talk about that. But
he absolutely, we know, entered the cheerleaders
a locker room. That is a given I was at that lunch and I was
at all those luncheons. I've been in the bowels of AT & T
Stadium, probably close to a hundred times. I know how
the stadium is laid out. There was
wrongdoing by him, entering the cheerleaders a locker room.
There was no reason said he was going to the bathroom. They're
back. Bathrooms everywhere. There's a bathroom in
the Cowboys locker room before you even get to the cheerleaders.
Locker room. There's
bathrooms all in the hallways.
I've used the bathrooms there. There's no reason to go into
the cheerleaders room, especially when you know,
they're there and they're probably dressing. So to me,
there was wrongdoing there by Rich to enter the cheerleaders
room. There was no reason to be in there.
Now, the second point I had Mike
that some executive, this came from. I heard you guys talk about
Nda's, but we don't know if according to the story if
the cheerleaders violated their nda's because it says in
the story that five months ago. They got a tip from a former
Cowboys executive.
And so I've been racking my mind about who this former
Cowboys, executive is who, who for some reason, decided to
tell the stories that somebody who hated rich
or was it somebody that wanted to get back at the Cowboys?
Like, who is this executive who left? The cowboy? Boys who now
it's talking and what else does this executive know? And is
this executive going to tell?
Because I'm sure the Cowboys know who this executive is by
this point. I would think because there can't be that
many people who are privy to this
well and and the executive would have to have access to
the paperwork. The tip may have started with the executive but
I still believe that somebody
who had signed on that dotted line
as a party to the
Agreement had to have given paperwork. How does the exact
and shame on the Cowboys? If they let this executive, leave
the building with nda's, with confidential settlement
agreements, where 2.4 million were paid out to
the cheerleaders whose rights were violated
by the actions of Rich Dalrymple. I just feel like
there's more to this story and one of the reasons they paid,
the money is
and one of the reasons that
that they found there was no wrongdoing.
They don't want anyone to start asking questions. Questions
again about whether or not rich Dalrymple was acting alone
when he
went into that place where he shouldn't have been. There's
two explanations. It's very simple. He either did it on his
own.
Or he did it with others, knowing
/ at the behest of others. And we don't know that and we'll
never know that if there isn't a full investigation and just
because time has passed, because that's what you're here
to will. Come on. It was 7 years ago where? Right? But it
wasn't properly investigated time. The passage of time
does not make the wrong
right? Just like with the stuff on deflategate that we reported
a couple of weeks ago.
So it's been seven years, right? But this is never come
out before. Now. It's out there. Let's deal with it.
And I think the NFL doesn't want to
The NFL saw what happened with the Washington commanders
and I think right now the League's appetite is let's not
go stirring up a pot
that may eventually explode in our faces
like the Washington Commander situation has done. And what
I hope happens is that the US House committee on oversight
and reform is paying attention to all of this and decides
to add it
to the investigation.
I mean, it's the same issues and the same concerns of
workplace misconduct. How people are treated in
the workplace. He's right. It's just a very discrete and
specific example,
but it's no different than
the things that that we've heard about with the Washington
Commander's, right? One of the big scandals that caused this
all to blow up and result in the NFL taking over
the investigation
of the Washington. Commanders
was the report from The Washington Post
about the the clips from the cheerleader videos that were
harvested
allegedly reportedly for Daniel Snyder and other high-level
Executives to watch. So, There's already overlap.
So if the League's not going to do it,
somebody else needs to and I assume that there are plenty of
reporters out there, trying to get more on this
Congress. Do your thing, you're already in the neighborhood,
you're already on the front porch of Daniel Snyder.
Just just walk next door
and just gently wrap on Jerry Jones. Do I know he's not going
to like it.
And I know he's not and I'm not saying that he's involved but
he's responsible for everything that happens in his house. And
this happened in his house Shireen.
Yeah, and an independent investigation as a league has
told Washington, cannot be independent, if it's conducted
by the team or somebody that team higher. So
there does need to be an independent investigation and
that comes in the purview of the NFL. They're the ones who
need to instigate this and investigate this and see what
else is out there. And there may be more that who knows
again what this executive knows or is going to
say in the future and I'm sure the Cowboys are trying to put a
Stop to that.
I mean, let's take a step back and think about this. We kind
of get desensitized to these scandals because it's like
each new one is. Okay, you know, we heard that but yeah,
yeah, you know,
what do you expect? What do you expect from this Cesspool
that pops up from time to time and do you know,
but this is stuff, people go to jail for
this is heinous activity.
Yeah. This is not something you just turn a blind eye to and
walk away. You're filming people sick.
Leave while they're changing their clothes. Are you freaking
kidding me? It was a club matter. Get out of here with
that.
I can't believe it. I can't believe it. And I don't watch
any other shows number one because it's all I can do to
do our own twice a day. And I never want to be accused of
stealing other people's b or lines or jokes.
Don't you have to worry about me stealing your joke? Kevin
O'Connell, but, you know, I mean, you don't set. Yeah.
Here's a joke for you. No. No, I don't want it. Thank you, but
I it's Buddy else talking about this.
Is this a big deal
if there been articles in the Dallas newspapers demanding for
answers here. I don't know. I really don't know.
Yes, but there should be
Yes, there's a lot of talk here. Mike, and it's the news
on the headline, headline and news on the headline, sound
like Sims. Now, right? It's headlines in the news
on TV, in the newspapers. Yes, and the Dallas Morning News,
did a story after you did about the NFL, not investigating this
and called, for the NFL to
investigate. So, yes,
there are, it is a Hot Topic here, everywhere. I go. People
are talking about it. They want to know how this happened and
what's going to happen next.
Extend and there may be nothing to happen next which is what
the Cowboys and NFL, obviously want is for this. They want to
go away. Yeah, so we can't let it happen. We can't let it
happen. Fans media. You can't let it happen. You got to keep
agitating.
Who's the guy that used to do? The commentaries on the local
TV station with the white hair? And it would be these awesome
biting commentaries. It just got right to the heart of
the issue. In a
Dale Hansen. We need. Is he still around?
No, he retired recently. Yeah, we have Del handsome back, right?
But need to bring Dale Hansen back for a commentary on this
one because maybe it would do the trick. But good. I'm
encouraged to hear that. There's intense local coverage.
I don't know what's going on nationally, but we all need to
be standing up and saying this demands an investigation this
demands answers and ultimately and I'm not trying to exonerate
Rich Dalrymple here.
He's at fault if he did what he did, but I am very curious as
whether he acted alone or whether there are others
who thought it would be funny if he did it again. I don't
know where the joke is
or wanted him to do it
for whatever reason.
I think there may be more to the story and that may be why
it got buried seven years ago and 2.4 million dollars was
paid out to ensure that it never ever, ever, ever
came to life.