and it was obviously killed. Harry wasn't going to be on
the roster this year did. Bill Belichick do him wrong by
keeping him for as long as he did. Because now he's missed
the offseason
and time with Justin Fields, Etc. Time with the Playbook,
I don't know if they did him wrong. I mean, they did what.
I don't know, I don't know. Maybe they were trying to work out
a way to keep him, you know, he wanted to be
traded last year, they worked out a way to keep him.
Maybe they were trying to keep me around.
For training camp preseason, and make a decision with
the final roster Cuts.
It's always better to be involved in the offseason
program, but it was good for him to get out when he did and
to have the full extent of training camp in the preseason,
get up to speed. So
is it wrong? Is it right? I mean the Browns did Baker,
Mayfield wrong, I guess the Patriots kind of did him wrong,
but they had every right
to do him wrong, if that makes any sense and there's a chance,
it doesn't PFT p.m. Posse. Wasn't Condoleezza Rice.
Also, once considered as a possible NFL commissioner, what
are your memories on that? I've seen the name come up. There's
also it's a names that get floated as a potential
commissioner for the NFL but here's the real, the NFL.
For its entire 100. Plus years of existence has usually gone
to some sort of an inside or somebody who knows the business
like Roger Goodell grew up in the business. Paul tag lubu was
an outside, the lawyer who understood the business had
worked with the NFL.
The real question is
when Goodell leaves, are they going to have to
tap into the CEO industry
because there is an entire subset of high-end Executives
who go from company to company doesn't matter whether it's
Pepsi.
Disney, or
Some other company
I'm trying to think of one Oracle
or
just completely different line of work, but it doesn't matter.
Because in that job, the skill set
is transferable. The skill set is management. Delegation
Vision, you have other people who understand the nuances of
the business and then you're a quick study. You figure it out.
It's one of
the skills, you need to be a successful CEO. You go to a new
business. You figure out very quickly, what they do, how they
do it, how they make, whatever they Whatever their services
are with their markets are with the competitors are with
the threats. Aw, it's all part of what a CEO does.
That's what the NFL may, eventually need. We're talking
about 65 million a year.
That may be the skill set that the league requires. The
problem is
I look CEO answer to a board of directors, but in a lot of
cases, the CEO has a lot of Sway and who gets on the board.
Makes it easier for the CEO to deal with the board. If it's
people that CEO got on the board
but at the outset the CEO is going to be dealing with a lot
of strangers. Unless the CEO is somebody that the board of
directors, already had a relationship with in, it makes
it easy, but as it relates to the NFL,
you've got a 32 ports, person board of directors, the
- got to keep them happy.
That's the toughest part of the job and as we know,
one of the reasons Roger Goodell get so much money. He
runs interference for the owners. He takes the flag that
they otherwise would take directly. All right, I'm
running out of time.
What else do we have here? NFL leads. Why do the Independent
Media? Go along with calling a stadium by its sponsored name?
They're not paying you guys anything? Why don't you just
call it Steeler Stadium? Like you did with Washington
franchise? Plus it sounds better.
I may just keep calling Heinz Field Heinz Field.
I may just do it.
That's a good point.
I'm not bound to say a crash, or
I may just call at Heinz Field,
why not?
I think that
the NFL expects, the broadcast Partners on the broadcast
themselves to use the name of the stadium, but no one is
required to do it. We can call it whatever we want the place
where the Steelers play,
the field, formerly known as Heinz. Maybe that's what I'll
call it. The field formerly known as Heinz.
All right. What else do we have here?
Another one from your watch is pfft. What are the most
jarring, stadium? Name changes. You can remember is He's
a crasher Stadium, the worse. I think that is the most jarring
because Heinz Field was an organic natural fit. It felt
like
Lambeau Field or Soldier for your which which aren't corporate
naming rights situations. And now all of a sudden you go from
one that feels normal and natural and perfect to one that
feels artificial and fluorescent
not real phony fake.
And as I said, yesterday, the Steelers are making more than
enough money to ignore your complaints about their new
stadium.
Naming rights partner.
All right, I got to wrap this up. I'm looking for one other
one that maybe I can get to that, won't take that much
time. Here's another one on the Steelers naming rights
situation. Rooney announced, he was excited to partner with
actress. Sure,
but the Rooney family doesn't own the stadium.
It's owned by the sports and exhibition authority of
Pittsburgh and Allegheny County. How did that deal work
and wiser and you taking credit. I think it may be in
the lease that the Steelers, get the money for the naming
rights. I mean this was tied to the Steelers, not pit, which
plays there.
I think the Steelers get the money
from the naming rights. I think that's part of their lease.
I think that's why they're acting this way. That's why
they're taking full ownership of this deal. It's their deal
to do not
Heinz Field or the field
formerly known as Heinz.
Josh Ramos which show format. Do you like better? The purely,
unscripted PF T? OT, you're doing today or the highly
produced PFT live PFT p.m. PFT live and Hammer are not highly
produced?
There's a flow. There are topics but
we talk about whatever we want to talk about within
the confines of those topics. Now for this, I just pick my own
topics and I just go but PFT live is not highly produced
football night in America is highly produced because it has
to be because there's only so much time available. There are
certain things that must be done, you got to get all
the highlights and you can't get off on some tangent that takes
up half the show.
Those of you who watch PFT live, know that a lot of times,
our first topic of the day will consume half the show and we
got Motor through everything else. So
that show is not highly produced and obviously this is
as as lowly produced as it possibly could be,
all right? If I didn't get to one of your questions, asked it
tomorrow. I was one other one that caught my eye.
Nate watches PFT daily listener. In recent law,
school, graduate in Massachusetts. Made a Twitter
just to reach out. I would love to hear about your experience,
taking the bar exam and as an early attorney, any advice
I take the exam
in two weeks Playmakers is my first read when I'm done. All
right, nia
nia Nate Nate wants to PFT
and I got to make this quick because I got a phone call
coming soon.
Quit listening.
Quick tweeting. Focus exclusively on your preparation
for the bar exam. This is your life for the next two weeks
and get yourself. Practice questions.
There are courses out there. There are
I can't remember the name of the course, it's been a long time
but the practice questions very accurate. They hire people to
go take the test.
Memorize questions and then
leave the testing room when it's over and call them in. So
they
understand what the Rhythm, what the flow is they don't
make brand new questions for every time they do the test. So
the
the leading Publications out there that have the sample
questions, a sample,
that's what you need to study. That's what you need to do over
and over and over and over and over again. And you'll be fine,
but quit listening to us until after you take
the bar exam, I mean I know you need a little balance. Balance,
but you need to go all-in at some point. Get yourself. Ready
for this thing. Your future career is riding on it.
And maybe one of these days you'll get to escape your
future career and not have to worry about that stuff anymore.
Trust me, that's one of the
most rewarding developments I've ever had professionally.
I now get to sit around all day long and do a bunch of stuff
that matters to absolutely no one but nevertheless keeps
the lightest lights on time to turn the lights off.
We'll see you tomorrow for another edition of PF T OT
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