about to win the eight
NHL and had Jamal Murray stayed healthy at the end of
the season could have contended for the NBA title. Where would you
rank him in the owners Power Rankings? That's hard to do
without doing the full rankings from top to bottom and
also depends on who you ask. If you ask people in st. Louis,
I know where he'd be ranked.
If you ask people in
l.a. he'd be ranked slightly higher. So I don't want to just
throw a dart and pick a number because
it's all something that needs to be done in relation to all
and if owners and I've thought about maybe like ranking
the top 10.
But you know what,
I just don't want the extra headache because what will
happen is if I say I'm going to do it,
I will undoubtedly be lobbied by PR people to include certain
owners because they are as Petty as the rest of us, which
is kind of refreshing. Even when you have billions,
you still become very Petty about what people say about you
and where they rank you on these lists and, you know,
Google in your own name and all that crap. And also, I'll get
complaints after the fact from people who are upset, that they
weren't weren't ranked higher than they should have been,
or weren't on the list of
Also I'm probably not going to do that and I'm just not going
to throw a dart on Stan kroenke but again Ask the people in St.
Louis what they think about staying kroenke.
Another one from Neil watch is PFT if DeShaun Watson wanted to
get back a version of his life closer to his life prior to
these allegations. What would you need to do to regain a good
Public Image? I don't know that he can never
get back to where he was.
It's about what he could have done from the get-go. And we've
talked about that settled a case. First case before it was
ever filed,
settle any other cases before they're ever.
Out. If there are other cases there may have never been other
cases. If they hadn't pissed off Tony Busby by refusing to
make an offer when he requested a hundred thousand dollars to
settle, the Ashley Solis claim before the first lawsuit was
filed,
I don't know what he can do at this point, other than
And this now
serve your suspension, come back and play and play well
and then the passage of time.
And the reality, there will be other controversies
other events, other things that we talk about and think about
and write about, we will eventually forget about DeShaun
Watson. There will be something else. That is
our focal point of the day. It happened with Ben
Roethlisberger, it happened with Mike Vick things, get
either forgotten or not as Vivid. Play
remembered.
And I remember when Ben Roethlisberger with to
allegations was the biggest story in the NFL and he never
had protracted litigation that commanded
a ton of attention with 20 plus accusers. He only had two,
he got suspended. He served his time. He came back. They went
to the Super Bowl within a year or two.
It was completely forgotten by the time he retired. If he even
mentioned it, you were kind of regarded as a jerk. Don't
mention that that was a long time ago, won't still part of
his story.
We're trying to reflect on the career Ben Roethlisberger and
I think it's amazing the Redemption he achieved in
Pittsburgh because back in 2010, when all of this was
coming to a head, I remember listening
via online
to Pittsburgh sports radio. It was just one person after
another calling in with some random complain about Ben
Roethlisberger, how he was rude to the person here, cut in line
at the Subway
restaurant, whatever it was, it was just like all these
ridiculously trivial complaints but they were thinking about
Didn't they almost traded him?
It was, it was a huge mess and he turned it around by winning
by winning and by staying out of trouble.
So that's how DeShaun Watson,
maybe won't erase
these issues, but how he? At least can get past it.
Resolved, the case has
served the suspension
play. Good, football
win games and stay out of trouble,
five years from now or sooner.
They'll be A much different vibe around, DeShaun Watson.
The currently has
Thanks for thank God for new watches PFT. Unless there's
a ton of questions here but he's got several. So that's keeping
us going today. Do you think the oversight committee will do
anything at the end of the day? Or do you think the whole
purpose of that
hearing was grandstanding?
Well, I think it's both
and it is
political theater.
It's performance art to a certain extent, it's depressing
to watch, that's how our sausage gets made as
a government. But at the same time, there are two bills that
are being introduced to address some of the problems
that That have come to light by virtue of the Commander's
investigation so I think something will be done.
I think Snyder is going to get subpoenaed because they said
they're going to subpoena him and when he testifies
Who knows what the end result of that is going to be, who
knows if he's going to face some allegation that he lied to
Congress or committed perjury, who knows?
So there's still plenty of steps left before we get to
the bottom of this and the reality is they have until
November December January when the new cost assuming that
the Republicans
retake control of the house and then retake control of all of
the committee's and the plug gets pulled immediately on
whatever is left. Out of this commanders investigation,
the clock is ticking toward the point at which
the Democrats will no longer be able to set the agenda
and determine who gets investigated and who doesn't, and,
and log. That's not a political comment. I mean, it's political
because it's recognizing political realities. I'm in
favor
of the Commander's being investigated and scrutinized
here, because there seems to be no other path for getting to
the truth and it's too easy for the NFL to brush it under
the rug. That was one of the things that was said, yesterday by
multiple members of the committee,
we shouldn't care about this.
Is the NFL took care of it? The question is,
did they really take care of it?
Did they properly take care of it?
Is it enough to brush it all under the rug? And say, we're
not telling you anything, we don't have to wear a private
business. It is a very public
private business just because it isn't publicly traded, it is
a public business, it relies on the money, the attention,
and the time.
Of the public, not to mention public dollars for stadiums,
not to mention the broadcast antitrust. Exemption, it is
a key part
of our public life, and as I've said, and I'm repeating myself.
But I don't care. It's an important Point. Nothing else
brings together. Millions of people for a three-hour chunk,
like the National Football League and a live game. So
I think this is going to keep going at least until
the new Congress is seated.
Neal says, this is not a question. I know a lot of us
are still hoping for PFT zip UPS, maybe someday. This is
the only one. This is the Prototype prototype that never went
anywhere. So as long as it holds us together, I'm going to
keep wearing it. Maybe we will find a way to make some more,
one more from kneel before we move on to have any big plans
for the remainder of the Hiatus. Well, first of all, it
really hasn't. Felt like a Hiatus me.
I was busy or yesterday.
Then I ever am other than during football season with
the commander Relation with all of the posts. We did on that
with the video that we did and radio appearances and podcast
and that's fine.
You got to take your news when you find it.
We don't make the stories, the stories make us.
Got to cover it.
Got a cover it like we always cover it with
Candor and with transparency and with an effort to help
people understand exactly what is going on in the National
Football League. And I think most people out there,
understand what we do, how we do it and appreciate it. But
yeah, I'm going to hang out. I'm going to try to enjoy myself.
I got some other stuff I'm working on.
I'm just going to relax as best. I can read some books
and wait for July, 25. When we can get back to doing PFT live
two hours a day, every day, seven and nine Eastern on
peacock and Sirius XM
85. All right,
what else do we have?
Maximus overdrive. What can we expect to hear from Daniel
Snyder next week? What happens if he doesn't show? Is that
even a possibility?
If he gets subpoena and you don't show up, he's got
a problem he potentially gets arrested
so I'll be surprised if it happens next week.
Don't even know. They can make service. I joked about that
yesterday. He's in France. I don't know what the rules are
for serving a subpoena from Congress
and France
but one way or the other, they'll get him subpoenaed and
he'll have to testify
and when he does
you can tell the truth
and face the consequences
or
You cannot tell the truth and face the consequences, but it
will be
and could be
and should be very interesting when it happens.
Ianforster given how much the Broncos
sold for recently? Does this make the slim chance of any
non us, a franchise, even Slimmer
than it is now? I don't, I don't know that that affects
the possibility of
a team being in another country. I don't, it's just
going to be expensive for whoever buys a franchise. If
it's an expansion team, it's going to be very expensive. The
price is going to keep going up and up and up. And as we
reported Josh,
Paris would have paid five billion
for the Broncos. If he knew that would have delivered the team
when he was unable to get an assurance that five billion
will get it done. He decided not to put five billion on
the table because he knew he was going to be jumped by
the Walmart group that would have offered well over five billion
to get the team as it stands for Point 65, but the numbers
keep going up
and I still think eventually
Especially when /, if, when
the NFL expands will see a team in London or two to
two stadiums, two teams just like Al Michaels said years
ago.
When the NFL returns
to La, it'll be two teams, not one, and he was right on
the money, even though it was a year of party was two teams and
it'll be two teams in London if that ever happens. What else do
we have?
James Hannah wins Big Cat back,
you know, I think we reached out to him. There was a day not
that long ago, where we had a whole because I think when
the Sims went to Cincinnati to interview burrow and he wasn't
available, I'll he's busy. He's busy. He's big time now and
I don't mean that in a pejorative way, like always
big-time and me, but the other guys busy,
he will show up from time to time. Hopefully, we'll get him
back at some point on a Friday when Peter, King's not
available, but the usual schedule is Chris Simms Monday
through Thursday
with Peter King on Friday. Now, last year's Sims was off on
Mondays, we had Mike Like instead because Sims does that
post game show
on peacock. So I don't know what's going to happen this
season. But either way, you gotta deal with me two hours
a day,
every weekday on peacock, unless I get sick 10 minutes
into the show and have to bail,
that's, that's, I don't even remember when that was, isn't
it weird how our days kind of blend from one to the next?
And,
and just like with, you know, we're talking about earlier,
DeShaun, Watson and memories fade memories, do Fade? Like
that was a bad day, I was miserable that day. And I,
I can't remember when it was. It was a Thursday, though.
I think I was where? I don't know. I don't think. I don't
think I had two patients to find this one. I think I just
grabbed a different quarter zip, but that was a bad day.
This is a better day.
It would be even better if we had PFT live, but the next best
thing is PFT OT.