all the stimulating questions you get, will you continue
doing the occasional old school style PFT p.m.? We're still
trying to figure out what we're going to do about PFT p.m.
going forward.
PFT live two hours in the morning. Fine
it
It's challenging to say the least
every day to shut down at 9:00 a.m. eastern. And to know that
five PM Eastern, I got to be back on for an hour. There may
be better ways to utilize that
time maybe we will do p f--, t OT as needed
based upon the development of a given day in lieu of
jumping in and doing PFT p.m.
on a consistent basis.
And it's kind of those,
you know, it when you see it like on a day, when
a coach gets Fired in the middle of the afternoon and
I remember there was a day on PFT p.m. a couple of years ago.
Bill O'Brien gets
fired on a Monday minutes before we go on air
for PFT p.m. that gave us something to talk about
some days.
There really isn't much to talk about that's happened from 9
a.m. to 5 p.m.
again you know it when you see it and
that may be the alternative. So so
it may, I don't know, we're trying to figure it out, it may
just be me.
As needed one two three times a week in the afternoon
based upon the developments of a given day. We'll see how it
plays out.
Neil watch is PFT. How long will it take to get you back
into the swing of the PFT live schedule? Is it like riding
a bike?
It is and it's good that we're doing. PF T OT from the old
position here. Today, it won't be as jarring on Monday, when
I show up at about,
90 seconds or so, to are,
and sit down and see Chris and he gives me the finger
and Give him the finger and off we go.
Yeah. It's just going to be off we go and it'll be exciting
that first day those two hours will fly by because I missed
it, I missed it. The first Monday
I keep getting flat and I appreciate, I'm not
complaining. I appreciate getting flooded with emails
from all the people saying. When are you coming back? When
are you coming back? And I'll how many times I have to say,
July, 25, July 25, July 25,
but I appreciate it. I appreciate the interest in the program
and five weeks is too long to be off.
We're going to try to do something about that for next year.
Trust me on that.
Five weeks. If I have anything to say about it, it's not
happening next year. Five weeks is too long to shut down for
the sport that never sleeps.
PFT. I just got a boo
from the control room.
Sorry but
sorry, but that's just the way it is. The audience demands
more content, PFT p.m. Posse. Why did the cheese trade for
Orlando Brown and not give him a long-term deal? Well, they
tried, they
tried to get a long-term deal.
The question is,
why didn't he take the long-term deal?
And
we've said this before, the standard protocol for
calculating a long-term offer based upon a franchise tag, you
take this year's salary,
You multiply it by one point two twenty percent raise for
next year, slap it together, fully guarantee and then work
out the other terms and that should usually turn a franchise
tag into a long-term deal.
I don't know enough about the nooks and crannies of what
the Chiefs offered Orlando Brown. But ultimately, he wasn't
willing to trade,
his opportunity to go year to year this year, next year, and
then free agency. After the 2023 season, he wasn't willing
to trade that
for whatever the Chiefs willing to offer. That's how Dak
Prescott got his gigantic contract last year. He was one
year away from the Kirk Cousins.
I'm walking out the door.
So what cowboys do you have to give me Dak Prescott to get me
to trade in
my opportunity to make was like 37 million for one year and
then walk away and free agency? What are you going to give me
to get me to give that up any leverage that into a great
deal. An awesome deal for years 160 million and they're going
to be back. Table
sooner rather than later with Dak Prescott the way that deal
is structured. So
unless at that's where the pendulum swings to the player,
look, the franchise tag is bad for players because it keeps
them off of the open market. However,
the player wants to tag his plot applied once the team
initiates that process,
that's when the player can say, hey,
all right, fine.
Let's do this. I got two years
before I can become an unrestricted free agent cause
you're not going to tag me a third time. So I'm not giving
up my year-to-year rights
unless you make it worth my while and the Chiefs
in the assessment of Orlando Brown
did not make it worth
his while me watch this PFT Texans Training, Camp opens
Friday, July 29, do you think a Jimmy G deal happens before
then
I I still think he's going to end up with the Texans. I don't
think it happens by then, but
Still, that's just my guess
is. He's going to end up their meal watches PFT do Madden
ratings matter at all. Here's how they matter
they matter because
Players get motivated by all sorts of things internally and
externally and a lot of players play, mad
and players are always looking for some sign of disrespect and
there's nothing more disrespectful than ending up.
Well, below your peers in the Madden ratings. When you
believe you are better
than how you've been rated,
Chase Claypool best example.
He recently said, he knows he's a top three receiver in the NFL.
He got a 78 for Madden. He's way, way, way, way way down
the list. He's behind.
Guys that he's clearly better than so,
whatever it takes.
To supply that extra kick
to do the stuff
that that we don't see
watching your diet, avoiding the ice cream
getting up, and getting your ass out of bed and getting
a workout in on a day. When you just don't feel like it, I'll
do it tomorrow. Or when you're, in the middle of the workout,
not pushing yourself to the Limit now, I'll push myself to
the Limit tomorrow.
Those are the tiny little building blocks that lead to
long-term. Success. So that's where the motivation comes into
play. It's not. Oh, I'm going to try harder when I'm playing.
No, it's I'm going to
work harder and I'm going to do everything I need to do. And
I'm going to be fully committed to all the stuff behind
the scenes,
the drudgery the monotony.
I'm gonna kick ass
on all the stuff. I'd rather not do
in the hopes of leading to
an end result, where I end up performing a lot better
than otherwise would, that's why it's important and that's why
that's why we pay attention now. I've only written one item
about it this year about the receivers I've seen other
ratings come out and, like, TJ W
not being a 99 when Mi Garrett is,
but it hasn't risen to the level where I've decided to do
anything about it. Mainly we're looking for reactions from
players at this point to their ratings. Because again, that's
that's the manifestation
of what I'm talking about here,
that extra kick that extra thing, that is going to drive
a player to not,
take it easy to be fully driven fully motivated. It fully
engaged and everything you need to do to be the best. He can
be.
Let's see what else we have here.
It's the
here's here's a tweet that is pasted from
March. 20, Derek Carr said, since some of you all are
sensitive, I will remind you that. I only want people who
encourage Speak Life into me and uplift me to have a voice
in my life. So if you're blocked, you probably acted
like a clown for clout. I
still love you all, but I don't have time for your negativity.
Somebody responded saying incoming Florio article
and Derek Carr replied by saying
haha facts. I love him too though.
He still has me blocked and
I don't know what I've
well I guess I do know what I've ever said about their car.
Look I hey
there's there's different ways that you can cover
this sport or any sport of cover. Anything I love the NFL,
I love pro football, I have since I was a little kid,
I wouldn't be giving my life to it, the way that I have every
way.
Moment, even during the five-week vacation,
I'm still and
I'm treading. Very close to the line here. A line that I don't
want to cross.
I don't like it. When people tell me how busy they are,
the work product speaks for itself, that said, I love the NFL,
I love pro football,
but I also don't like b*******.
And one of the skills I've developed over the years is
the ability to spot and the willingness to call out
the b******* that permeates this Sport, and there's plenty of
Of it. There's plenty of it. So
some people don't like it
when their BS gets called out and
that's okay, I can live with that. Trust me. I've been doing
this for 21 years. I can live with people being upset with
me. I can live with people blocking me or on following me
on Twitter.
That is not how I measure
my own personal satisfaction
with what I've been able to do and what I plan to keep doing.
Let's see what else we have here on that point. Austrian
Panther interesting question. Long-term successful
businesses, innovate and change. Constantly. What
changes can we expect from PFT
next season?
I
continue to follow the basic Guiding Light of I talk about
and write about the things that I would be interested in in and
as a fan. And I think what happens, sometimes is
businesses outsmart themselves by feeling like they
need to do something more something different than just serve
their customers. And I Try
by constantly keeping that fan in me, engage with the game.
I try to spot things that I am subjectively interested in. And
I write about those things,
trusting that the people out there
who are consuming the content,
whether it's in written, form our video Forum, will
will respond and be interested in it as well.
There are too many people in the media
who try to force feed
to the audience things. They think the audience should be
interested in.
I'd rather focus on the things that I believe the audience is
interested in. That doesn't mean clickbait. There's so much
clickbait crap out there now, which is obvious. Just
click First lists and
I don't want to name names or get go down that but but it's
it's
exhausting at times to sift through the actual news
versus the made-up crap.
That is just there to lure someone in.
They click on it and say all this is nothing and they click
out but the click counted
Anyway, my point is we constantly are driven by giving
the audience, what we think the audience is truly interested in
and
that process is a daily constant ongoing thing. So to
the extent that we innovate and change I mean there isn't much
more we can do, you see a lot more video content on the site
then you use to see
what I like to have our own app.
I would be candid about that. Maybe we will one of these days
maybe there's going to be an occasion coming up in the not
too distant future where there's all sorts of
things that we can ask for and try to get in.
Order to improve the total experience.
We'll see how that plays out.
Let's see what else we have here.
There was one I saw earlier. Here it is. I like this one.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, no. It's not that one.
Here we go. Hang on.
Here it is
from Marco.
How can the NFL say, they investigated the Watson
situation and present four or five cases? When a publication
like the New York Times found 66 when the Texans had to
settle with 30 women all related, to the Watson
situation
and 10 criminal cases,
the police detective believed he was guilty of and
this is one of the big flaws in the NFL's effort to create its
own justice system. Now
we know that the NFL spoke ultimately 212 of the women
with accusations against DeShaun Watson,
there are 24 lawsuits that were filed against him,
the Texan settlement, 30
suggests that there are six others out there.
That either will sue DeShaun Watson? Or we won't know this.
If it happened
settled pre-suit, and he claims with the DeShaun Watson that's
possible as well, but we know there's 30,
We know that 24 sued,
the NFL spoke to 12. And at the end of the day,
the NFL presented for
accusers at the hearing. Now, the fifth
I'm told was based upon a media report,
that's not evidence.
You try to go to court
by
in lieu of calling a witness handing, the judge
a newspaper.
And saying read the article above the fold, that's not
evidence,
no matter how well the article is written, no matter, no
matter how properly sourced invented. The story is that is
not evidence
in a Judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding, which this clearly
is. So the NFL had for accusers
in a fellow, had a fifth. They tried to jam in
through a media report, that was disregarded.
That's my understanding
by judge Robinson, so you got four. So how do you get
From 3:36. Here's the problem.
Anyway, eventually, get back around to the point. The NFL
has no subpoena power. We've talked a lot about subpoenas
recently
as a relates to
Dan Snyder and his yacht,
the NFL doesn't have the power to issue a subpoena to anyone
who doesn't work for the league. The NFL can't force,
anyone who isn't employed by one of the teams or the league
office to show up in cooperate.
The CQ Elliot, six years ago,
one of the reasons he got suspended, six games, even
though he was never arrested. It charged or sued.
Is that the ex-girlfriend
Who made the allegations against him was willing to
continuously speak to the NFL, I think there were six
interviews at the end of the day
between the NFL and
the individual who made the accusation, she didn't have to
talk to the NFL, she chose to so 24. How do we get down to
12? It's entirely possible. The NFL is not going to take out
a billboard
to tell this to the world because they don't want to
expose the biggest flaw in their effort to engage in
this rough Justice that they try to craft.
As a PR tool.
It could be the 12 of them said, we're not cooperating
and it could be
that eight of the 12 that did talk to. The NFL
said, we're not showing up for the hearing. We don't like
the question to ask. Remember there was a report, it wasn't report.
It was quotes from Tony Busby year or so ago,
complaining about on behalf of the women, who were interviewed
the way that they were treated. The with the questions they
were asked, they didn't think they were
sufficiently respected. So
you just tap out I'll get my Justice in court. I'm not
Not engaging in your Kangaroo Court. I'm not required to you
can't make me. It doesn't affect my rights.
So
that's the problem here.
So look, the appearance that I think it creates is the NFL
ultimately believed that there were only four valid cases.
It's entirely possible
that the NFL wanted to put all 24
in front of Judge Robinson,
but 20 of them said,
go to hell. We're not doing it and if they say that
there's nothing the NFL can do
to make them again. That is the biggest problem
when it comes to
the NFL's.
Power or lack thereof to properly, investigate and
prosecute
players who are accused of off-duty,
misconduct. Let's go ahead and stop it there, if I didn't get
to your question today. Resubmit it for tomorrow.
That'll give me reason to go. Five, four, five, in the fifth
and final week of the PFT live Hiatus.
The final five week Hiatus if I can help, but the PFT live will
ever have, I plan to come back with one more P ft 0 t. And
then on Monday, we'll be back
with PFT lat. I've Sims will be involved. I'll be here.
Will be everywhere, The Show Goes. And before, you know it,
we'll be up and running and we'll be with you continuously
every day. No days off. Except when I have an impending,
intestinal requirement, five minutes into a show.
Other than that, no days off
or other than like whenever the holidays land, and we take
a day off or two. But other than that, no days off until
the next Hiatus next year, thanks as always for some of your
time, checks out around the clock of pro football talk.com.
We will see you back here. Hopefully again. Morrow.