I looked at them a little bit earlier, there's some
repetition here. I mean PFT M PM Posse did you not listen to
Friday's
episode? You got like two or three questions already asked
me and I already answered ask, an answer would be
the objection from from lawyers in the crowd. All right, let's see
what we have here.
Here's one. Why are legal and political documents? Which
affects so many regular and everyday people and our
everyday lives written in legalese or language that most
lawn or lawyers, politicians legal, experts Etc. Can
understand look it's just
it just kind of happens that way
you know
there can be an insensitivity to the audience
or a failure to properly gauge who the audience should be. But
there is a lot of
adding a try to impress people to.
I think that's part of it
if you Write it into simple or common of phrasing, you're
going to have people that you look up to or your Rivals. You
don't want to look stupid or ineffective to them. I think
there is a lot of
that goes on human nature
to certain people. You want to impress
got to make it look. Good. Got to make it sound good. The
problem is yet 95% of the people can't even begin to
understand it, but that's just kind of the way it is. And it
is
a different kind of language. And I think the best lawyers
who are good writers know, when
To write in a way that the average person will understand
if the average person is the intended audience, I think
that's really the key understanding who your intended
audience is.
And and drafting it for them and not getting caught up in
this idea that I need to impress somebody
they need to look smarter
or not look dumb
not use to commoner basic of language so that's just part of
it in a nutshell.
All right, let's see what else we have here.
Shawn. I did. You can't be serious here, Sean. I have
a shower. Do you think the AFC, the NFC, might reach out to
Alabama and Georgia to expand the conference at 34? And it's
funny because there's some truth to the bottom of that.
These college programs are becoming
professional operations
and they have been.
They have been
the fact that
players were able to make no money until July 1 of last
year.
Helped,
just keep the fiction intact that these aren't
Million-dollar professional football operations. Once
the players can get paid, even if it's indirectly that
ripped down the facade. And we all know that that these are
essentially professional sports operations and we're seeing
what happens the the best teams the teams that are perceived to
be the most successful in his age of the ni L money where if
you play in
a bigger Mark of the bigger alumni base and more money that
possibly comes in to help you get better players, that's just
going to be the key to having the best teams. Eames. And they
want the best teams in the best conferences and ESPN is part
of it and Fox's part of it. Everybody's trying to be king
maker here as they reshape college football, but I don't
think we're going to see.
Alabama
or Georgia become part of the NFL anytime soon. But we're
going to see college football, look and feel a lot more. Like
the NFL in one, very good way I made this point yesterday
right now, you got a small handful of teams that are going
to compete for the championship every year with with some,
some potential for turnover, right? A Georgia pops up in
some plants at Clemson
Alabama's. Just kind of always there. Ohio State's just kind
of always there when you get it down to suit too. For
conferences
that truly are making all the money
that truly are in the best position to recruit the best
players. And this one of the reason why Nick Saban
is so adamant about the current ni L reality. It's going to
make it harder for him to get the players he wants because
going to be more money for those players that are schools.
That's it. Plain, and simple. That's it. That's why
whines about it all the time.
You could see more teams, you could see a broader band
of programs that are ultimately vying for a championship but it
eliminates
the possibility of
a team that isn't in that upper echelon catching lightning in
a bottle one year and riding it all the way to their
Championship. It's just not going to happen if you're not
in one of the top, two conferences, SEC or Big Ten.
It's going to be very difficult to compete for a championship.
So you're going to have tears first tier second, tier third,
tier 4, tier everybody. That's how college football is going
to be, that's what's going to become
and we're in the process of those. Those labor pains
working their way toward what will be
two super conferences,
a couple of second, tier conferences, some third, tier
conferences and then pretty much everybody else.
You know, watch is PFT with the preseason. Now less than
a month away. What do you miss most about football? I read
this one earlier and I was thinking about it.
What I miss most is that feeling that you get
when you're watching a game,
That
is close in the fourth quarter.
It is exciting in the fourth quarter.
And you just can't wait to see how it all plays out your.
You're kind of caught in this,
In this
Middle Ground of, I can't wait to see how it plays out, but
I don't want to dance.
I want to know who wins,
but I want to enjoy it. I remember the feeling November
of 2018 after that, Rams Chiefs game. The one that was supposed
to be played in Mexico, City and ended up being played
at the Coliseum.
He didn't want to tend
bills Chiefs this year, in the playoffs. She didn't want it to
end.
You want to keep going. I love that feeling most specifically
in the Afterglow of a big game where you're waiting for the
press conferences and you,
you know, from the perspective of what I do stuff, you can
write about stuff, you Can sink your teeth into for whatever
reason sometimes it's because there was a bad call. Bad call
for one team great call for
the other team. We always lose sight of that all, what a bad
call
this hit.
You think the Rams were saying that the 2018 NFC Championship
game? She what about? That's a shame? Oh, that's a, that's
a horrible call, huh?
Huh sucks for the Saints
for us.
So II, really from the perspective of what I do,
I love those games that Primetime
that have that Afterglow.
Would that make you want to stay up
late and that happens sometimes can't fall asleep because that,
that game was so exciting. It ended in such a
rewarding way and you still want more and you get more from
the aftermath. That's what I miss the most
about football season and it will be here
as well as we always say, every year before we know it.
New watches PFT. If you held the ultimate decision on
DeShaun Watson suspension, how would you find? Well, look, I'm
going to punt on this, because I'm going to say, I would have
had to be there for the three days of the hearing.
I need to know what the facts are.
What evidence did the NFL present. Now, I'm told
and we've reported that there was no evidence of actual
violence, threats of violence, physical coercion.
But I'd want to know the facts, hide want to sit and hear how
the Sean Watson testify I'd want to.
Be able to see and we don't know how many of the women who
have accused him of wrongdoing actually showed up and
testified but
you know ultimately there's a credibility contest here.
and I'd like to think I'm pretty good at knowing when
someone's full of it and when they're not, because I've been
lied to by every shape and size of human being, there is every
Walk of Life, every
slice of the economic spectrum
because what happens is, and I feel like I said this, not that
long ago,
people who are new to legal system, don't realize
How easy it is for people who deal with all the time to spot
someone who's lying because there are new to it. They think
they're just going to go in and sell their story
sign. Some people are very good liars, some people are very
good liars and some people are very bad at telling the truth,
they get nervous. Not because they're lying just because
they're overwhelmed by the entire system. So
I would want to have the benefit
of hearing DeShaun, Watson testify,
maybe even ask him a few questions myself
based upon the questions that aren't as
Asked, I'd want to see the evidence against him, and I'd
want to have a clear understanding of exactly what
happened. And then I would take the personal conduct policy and
apply it. And remember, it's not just whether or not there
was any type of actual assault.
There are catch-all Provisions, regarding undermining,
the Integrity of the game, or putting the health and safety
of others. The well-being of others at risk, there are ways
to get there without proving actual assault, but I would
just want to have the benefit of all the evidence
and we have to trust somebody who
Is accomplished enough to become a federal judge
and performed by all appearances. Well, in that
capacity for 25 years is going to know how to parse through
all this and come up with a decision and we just have to be
ready
for it and this gets back to what we talked about earlier.
She needs to be able to communicate it in a way that
people will understand her audience needs to be
the average person who's going to read it
or the average reporter who's going to read it, who isn't
a lawyer
and
try to explain it.
To Their audience. So people can buy in and understand why
she decided what you decided.
Man. Bear Down. Mama Bear Down,
is the newest info Seahawks have no interest in trading for
Baker, just smoke screen of. Do you think
They will start the season with Drew lock and Geno Smith. And
it'll, that's part of this Mayfield a show. I'm not going
to
go back and recover the old brown, but
the Seahawks need to be able
to save some face here and not create the impression
that they wanted Baker, Mayfield and didn't get in,
because then that undermines Geno Smith and Drew law.
You're going forward one of those two guys. Oh, and Russell
Wilson's, coming to town week one. So you need your fans to
feel good about whatever it is. You're doing at quarterback and
it's hard to make them feel good. If you go all in for
Baker Mayfield
and you don't get him.
Then the perception is we're settling
for second best that's why if they are in it, but they're
doing their damnedest to make it look like
Are not in it. That's why they're doing it.
They don't want to create an unrealistic expectation
for Baker Mayfield and they don't want to create
the impression that they really don't. Like the guys, they
have. I think that Pete, Carroll likes nothing more than
the idea of going forward with Russell, Wilson's, back up and
having the team perform as well,
without Russell Wilson as it did with him. I think that that
is attractive to Pete Carroll, because he wants to prove that
they were right to move on from him.
After a couple of years, of agitation,
I'm by Russell Wilson to be more involved. In the offense,
to be the centerpiece of the offense. And ultimately he was
going to expect a market value contract, another market value
contract within the next year, or so, from the Seahawks,
What kind of QB dude?
I think we're Kleine q. B is the same as PFT p.m. Posse. You
just didn't watch Friday, show where you been where you been?
I think you were out of town. Go back and watch Friday, show
you're asking a bunch of questions. I've already
answered but that's fine.
I'd rather have repetition
then none whatsoever.
Pics 2004. How long will it take? And what has to happen?
Procedurally for the NFL to adopt new technology like usfl
3D player and ball tracking
etc, etc. If you truly want play-by-play betting, these
changes need to come sooner. Rather than later, the key
to the play-by-play batting is the technology tool allows for
no lag between what happens at the stadium and what you see on
your phone or on your screen or wherever. And remember the aaf
had that
that technology where there was an
Happened that you could see the tracking devices that were on
the various players move in real time,
but I don't think that's quite the same as being able to see
the action. That's the key.
That's, that's the technology that ultimately matters. These
other things are just bells and whistles, that maybe make calls
more reliable. And at some point, the NFL needs
to be concerned about that,
but they've been,
they've been unwilling to spend the money. I've been a big
proponent of all the money. They're going to make from
legalized gambling. They need to peel some of it off and
devote it to ensuring that the call
calls are better with better officiating, full-time officiating,
more creativity in improving officiating function.
That's what the NFL
needs to do.
Keith Horton, what will it take coming out of the Mary Jo White
investigation, for Dan Snyder to be removed if white
concludes Dan engaged in wrongful conduct, will it be
able to argue? It's just one person's opinion and that he
has been treated unfairly. This gets back to the whole
contest to credibility.
He can say.
He said, she said, well, Mary Jo White's job is to determine
who's saying the truth.
There are ways you can either corroborate a claim or just to
get the impression. The person
that you're talking to is telling you the truth,
the whole truth and nothing but the truth, we're shading it in some
way and look, I'm a firm believer in. This is my
opinion.
Mary Jo White keeps getting hired by the NFL to do these
investigations because she does with the NFL wants. That's
that's one of the dirty little secrets of these outside firms.
That provide Investigative Services independent
investigation.
They want to keep getting hired
by a cost insensitive client to do these investigations,
the great way to make a lot of money for your firm. So you're
not going to keep getting hired if
You're not giving the client what they want,
Mary Jo White keeps giving the NFL what they want.
So she keeps getting hired. So my prediction is
she'll give the NFL what they want and they'll do with it.
What they will, but I continue to believe that the league
doesn't want to get caught up in full-blown, litigation with
Daniel Snyder and doesn't want
him to be motivated
to air out any and all dirty laundry. He may have about his
Partners the league office, whoever, whatever, he may know,
whatever, he may have in those documents. The league won't
reveal.
Jon Gruden emails, really were a shot across the bow and
anyone else out there who may want to mess with Daniel
Snyder.
Let's see what else we have.
You watch this PFT, do you think Baker Mayfield will play
football this season? I definitely do. Absolutely. Do
is just a question of when the transaction happens worst case
scenario and I don't think the Browns can make this work. They
sit on him for the entirety of the period up
until the trade deadline.
And then after that, they release him, like they did with
Odell Beckham jr. Last year, I don't think that happens.
I don't think Baker, Mayfield goes along with it Baker.
Mayfield doesn't just need his 18 point eight million this
year.
Needs a place where he can get properly ensconced and set
himself up for his contract next year. Another one from
Neil W is PFT
any good movies TV shows you've been watching recently. I have
a recommendation Beyond season 5, superfan episodes of The
Office on peacock, where you have extended episode. Most of
them are at least a half hour long.
It's great new stuff you've never seen before. If you're
a fan of the office you'll love it. If you're not a fan of
the office is a great way to induce to the show.
But but at the risk of alienating the fine folks at
peacock
Is a show that's available on Hulu right now. God striking Me
Dead.
Calm a bolt of lightning from the Comcast Building reaching
all the way from Manhattan here to West. Virginia. The old man
with Jeff Bridges.
Four episodes have been out that last one was not my favorite
and I'm curious as to where it's going to go,
but it's been awesome.
So far, highly recommend
Keith teeth. The Zed has busted me, no days off for PFT. Where
is the July 5 episode? I just didn't do one yet. Because
there really wasn't anything to talk about yesterday. I just,
I just didn't do it. I didn't feel and I can't say, oh, I was
hung over from the night before. I wasn't,
I just it just wasn't happening yesterday. I don't want to sit
here and just prattle on and on kind of like, I am right now
for no, real reason.
Alright, I think that's it.
Let's see if we have anything else,
that's it. Appreciate you as always
PFT OT signing off for July 6,
tentatively planned to me back. July 7, but if there really
isn't anything happening, I am not going to do it.
I appreciate the fact that you want new content
but there's only so much we can talk about until we start
getting some news. The good news is before, you know, it
training camps will be open and it will be an avalanche of NFL
news and Analysis. And
again, 18 days from now
PFT, is it 18
or is it 19? It's 1919 days from now. Either way tomorrow
it'll be 18.
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