05-28-24 Hour 1 of Broncos Country Tonight

Episode Transcript

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Welcome in to it Broncos Country tonight, Benjamin Albright here with you post Rockies
edition. We had the same setuptomorrow and then a full show on Thursday
with Nick Ferguson back in. Iwant to ask him about this NFLPA news
so about how they're trying to scrapOTA's and all that kind of stuff.
I'll get into that and explain whatthat is here in a minute. We'll
get Nick to discuss it his Nickworks with the NFLPA on Thursday, so

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you'll want to you want to setyour calendars for that. I believe Steve
Atwater will be in for with uson Thursday as well, but I'm not
one hundred percent sure on that yet, so don't hold it to me if
I'm if I'm off on that onefive six six nine zeros tex line.
You guys want to get involved inthe conversation, and we're gonna open right
up by talking about, uh,this Brandon McManus situation. Former Broncos kicker

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Brandon McManus h Two women have fileda lawsuit accusing McManus sexually assaulting them on
a Jaguars team flight last year.McManus currently has a one year contract with
the Washington Commanders after spending nine seasonswith the Broncos and join the Jaguars last
year. Michael Dorocco of ESPN reportedthat the Jags are also being sued by

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the two flight attendants for failing tosupervise McManus and failing to create a safe
environment for staff serving the team.They are seeking a jury trial and more
than one million dollars in damages.The Jags declined an opportunity to comment on
the situation, as did the NFLPA. McManus is accused of trying to kiss

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one woman while she was seated duringa turbulent period of the September flight,
and then quote grinding up against herduring one of the flight's meal services.
The second woman also accuses McManus ofgrinding against her and then smirked and walked
away when confronted about it. Lawsuitalso claims mcmannons offered money to other flight
attendants to drink and dance inappropriately.There were complaints about it being almost a

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party atmosphere on the flight, andthat there was already other things going on
that he was contributing to that mcmausonhis attorney did respond or. McManus responded
rather through his attorney, Brett Galloway, saying these are absolutely fictitious and demonstrably
false allegations made as part of acampaign to defame and disparage a talented and

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well respected NFL player. We intendto aggressively defend Brandon's rights and integrity and
clear his name by showing what theseclaims truly are. An extortion attempt.
The two women who identify as JaneDoe number one and Jane Doe number two
in the lawsuit, which is filedFriday in Duval County Circuit Civil Court,
are represented by attorney Tony Busby,whose firm represents them and is attempting to

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represent any other women who want tocome forward. They posted something today made
a statement saying that they attempted tosettle the case before the lawsuit was even
filed. Quote our efforts at resolutionand we're met with arrogance, ignorance,
and stupidity, strikingly similar to howDeShawn Watson's team responded when we tried to
resolve those cases pre filing. Theallegations were made in this lawsuit are very

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serious. We made sure to fullyvet them and speak to witnesses before even
taking the case. We will pursuethis case with the same tenacity we are
known for, and that's Tony Buzzby, the attorney representing both Jane Doe one
and Jane Doe two in the lawsuitagainst Branda McManus. The Jaguars acknowledged the
lawsuit in a statement on Monday night, saying we are aware of the complaint

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and we acknowledge the significance of theclaims. We continue to look into the
matter at bears, emphasizing that weinsist as an organization built by people who
represent our community in game with thehighest character in class. The Jags,
of course, did not re signMcManus's offseason. He signed a one year,
three point six million dollar contract withthe Washington Commanders back on March fourteenth.

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The Commanders, in a statement say, earlier today, we were made
aware of the civil lawsuit filed onMate twenty fourth against Brandon McManus. We
take allegations of this nature very seriouslyand are looking in to the matter.
We've been in communication with the leagueoffice and Brandon's representation and reserved for the
comment at this time. According tolawsuit, both women worked as flight attendants

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on the Jaguars September twenty eighth,twenty twenty three, Atlas Air Worldwide Holding's
charter flight. They alleged the flightquickly turned into a party as McManus and
several other players disregarded the flight attendant'spersonal space, air travel safety, and
federal law. The lawsuit also claimsMcManus recruited three other flight attendants to the

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party and was passing out one hundredhours bills to encourage him to drink and
dance inappropriately for him. Jane doI accuses him McManus specifically of trying to
kiss her while she was seated duringa session of turbulence and twice grinding up
against her while she was serving theflight of the flight's two meal services.
Do one alleges that during the finalassault, she made eye contact with another

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Jags player, who she said lookedashamed of McManus's behavior. Jane do two
alleges that McManus grinded up against herwhile she was serving the second meal service.
Per the lawsuit, dough two confrontof McManus, who smirked and walked
away her words. The lawsuit saysdough two remained in the aircraft's second story
to avoid McManus on the team's flightfrom London to Jacksonville on October eighth,

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So on the return flight, shejust stayed on the second level and stayed
away. It's a it's a splitlevel aircraft that usually when they fly like
that, and I've made the internationalflight with with an NFL team. I
definitely with the Broncos to you know, over to London. As you all
know, if it's a if it'sa split level flight, then usually the
coaches and gn all that kind ofstuff. Usually those are they're separate from

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the players and usually they're uh,they're up a level, you know,
over there. So it's possible thatthere wasn't you know, the coaching staff
wasn't down there. Because Doug Petersonsaid it was the first he'd heard of
it. He said, quote,I saw the article that came out.
Obviously disappoint to hear the news thattook place. Other than that, honestly,
being that it's a legal matter atthis time, I can't really comment

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till more information it has gathered.And then when pressed further, he said,
that is the first I've heard ofit. Yes, he was asked
about the allegation that it was aparty atmosphere on the flight, and he
did not deny the accuracy of that, but he said this a quote,
A typical flight is not that way. It's a business trip. It's a
business trip, and that's how weapproach it from an organizational standpoint, you

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know, from the league standpoint.So for that, when I read that,
that part was disappointing. What thatseems to indicate is that Peterson was
probably on a different level of theplane and didn't know anything about it,
or at least that seems to behis implied claim with regard to that.
He didn't want to comment further onit, but he did again reiterate Monday
was the first time he had heardabout the allegations, and did not describe

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the atmosphere on the charter flight.You know, he did confirm that the
seating arrangement on the flight is somewhatseparated. Know, I said, we
sit down. We want to makesure players are together, coaches together,
staffs together, things of that nature. Everybody's comfortable, has space, and
I can tell you that that's usuallyhow it goes. And then media,

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of course, we were seated onthe Broncos flight. I'm not really allowed
to give a whole lot of specifics, but we're together but segregated from things
like that as well. So TonyBusby, who represents both women, also
represented the women in the Deshaun Watsoncase, represent more than twenty women who
had case claims against the Browns quarterbackfor sexual misconducts during massage sessions. He's

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representing the two flight attendants that claimMcManus sexually assaulted them. It's unclear right
now when McManus or the Jags werefirst notified of these claims, or whether
the NFL was notified under potential violationsunder the Personal Conduct Policy. It's unknown

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if this was disclosed to the commandersbefore McManus signed with them. So you
know, there's there are some submissingpieces here as far as timelines on when
the teams knew about this, ifthe commanders knew about this when they were
signing McManus or not. And Iassume we'll find out more about that in

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the coming days. So it's youknow, I with these kinds of situations.
I mean, the case is describedas an extortion extent by McManus,
which you know is normal language forfor someone defending themselves, you send,
uh, it's normal for lawyers tosend a demand letter before you file the

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lawsuit, So it's possible that that'swhat that was, and they're claiming that
that's, you know, the attemptto settle before whatever. The question responds
to each demand letter is whether thepre suit settlement effort is taken seriously,
whether it's dismissed, et cetera.And Watson, by refusing to respond to
a fairly low opening demand from hisfirst victim of one hundred thousand dollars,

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learned the hard way when he woundup paying billions. You know, in
his cases. The lawsuit could putthe Jags in some hot water. If
alcohol was being served or consumed onthe flight, the Jags could be in
trouble. In November of twenty twentytwo, a pair of incidents involving alcohol

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consumption on team flights prompted the NFLto issue a strongly worded reminder to all
teams about the relevant rule. Itwas after Titans offensive coordinator Todd Downing was
arrested for d y under a timelinethat suggested that he was drinking on the
plane back from Green Bay following aThursday night win, and Commanders players,

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of course, were disciplined for havingbeer on a team playing back from Philly
after a Monday night win. Theleague made it clear future penalties could be
significantly worse, so there's precedent forthe dating back a couple of years.
Portions of the memo from the leagueoffice were leaked to the time and it
threatened significant discipline for future violations.Whether or not the league was you know,
puffing his chest out or whatever.You know, we'll kind of find

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out. But alcohol on alcoholuse ateam plane or in team facilities is frowned
on by the league. The goalsto make sure once the plane lands,
the employees dispersed to their cars,there's no chance that they could mame or
kill local citizens with the dui,just you know, by having celebrated on
a flight back from the game.The league doesn't want the responsibility for that,
and honestly, the ethical and moralobligations there seemed to be pretty pretty

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apparent if you ask me. BrandonMcManus again from his side of the house,
and his attorney, Brett Galloway,have released a statement adamantly to einty
allegations Brett Galloway saying, to beclear, these are absolutely fictitious and demonstrably
false allegations, maybe as part ofa campaign to you know, defame and

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disparage an NFL player, we intendaggressively defend by showing these claims are an
extortion attempt. And and that's Imean, that's typical lawyer language for that,
that type of stuff. That's notsaying that McManus did or didn't do
it, but that's you know thatthat's what happens in these claims. Uh.
The suggestion that it's an extortion attemptraises the question of whether the plaintiffs
previously attempted to secure payment from McManusin settlement of the claims. That's what

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happened with the person who accused Dallasquarterback Dak Prescott no sexual assault. Prescott
and his lawyers opted for the ultraaggressive move of suing the victim and her
lawyers and and going from there.McManus had been put on notice of the
claim. The next question becomes whetherhe disclosed it to the Jaguars. Commander's
NFL the Personal Conduct Policy has supportedclear and unambiguous language in it. It

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says clubs and players are obligated topromptly report any matter that comes to their
attention that may constitute a violation ofthat policy. So it's it's I mean
the PC the PCP. The NFLPersonal Condit Policy is very very clear on
what a player should do in thissituation. If McManus had been put on
notice of the claims as an attemptto settle then before the lawsuit was filed,

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which is extremely common, then hehad a duty to disclose it.
If he knew about it and signeda contract with the commanders, which his
contract with the commanders has one anda half million in guarantees, that could
become an entirely separate issue. Thereare with this case two different issues here.
The first is did he do whathe's accused of doing, which we

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don't know, We don't know thefacts, and we're waiting for that stuff
to come out. Two, whendid he first become aware of this claim?
And did he report it? Becauseit doesn't matter if he denies it,
it doesn't even matter. On thesecond part, if he truly didn't
do it, the NFL will beenforcing the policy has written, and we
know from experience that this isn't somethingthat consistently occurs, so the court will

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resolve whether or not they did it, whether or not he did it,
or whether or not it is morelikely that he did it, et cetera.
But the remainder of this UH willcome through finding out McManus's timeline and
what it was that he knew whenand when, uh, when he reported
it to the league, the teams, et cetera. It's disappointing. Brandon

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McManus was somewhat of a fan favorite, uh here in Denver. He had
a food blog that he went aroundsampling different restaurants here in Denver that you
know, it was fairly popular.It was. It was kind of a
fun thing. He's always a funguy uh at camp, whether it was
you know, slipping onto the fieldas a dB to try to intercept people

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and then run it back or youknow, doing just doing goofy stuff.
He was always uh. He wasalways a fun and funny guy in practice.
But you know, behind closed doors, you don't know who people are
behind in certain incidents incidences, youdon't know what people are capable of doing.
And I I you know, Idon't. I can't. I can't
definitively say one way or the other, because I don't know the guy.
I know him from, you know, being in the locker room and I

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know him from you know, forpractice and that kind of stuff. I
know he had. There was alocal kid, failed comedian, and that
trolled him, and he wound updonating ten thousand dollars in that guy's name
or co donating it in his nameor whatever, you know, just as
a as a way to deal withthe way that that guy was trolling him.
But you know, as far asthe rest of it goes, I

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mean, there's not there's not anundercurrent around talent of him having been a
bad guy. But again, youdon't want to say that because you don't
know. We don't know, Andthat's what's so frustrating, you know,
because he was an easy guy toroot for because he was fun and so
that's you know, then you startto well, he never was that guy.
Got to let the facts come outand these kinds of things, and
certainly disappointed that this that this hascome out come to light hopefully or we're

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hoping, I guess that it isn'ttrue, but you know, you don't
know. Five six six nine zerosa text line let you know your thoughts
on this situation. What the whatthe commanders should do? I mean,
it's a kicker. You know,you're you're you're tied to a kicker for
over three million dollars. Are yougonna uh, are you gonna let that
ride? Or or do you youknow, do you do you, for
lack of a better term, punton the kicker and move on. We've

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seen plenty of these kickers, forinstance, uh in the Spring League and
United Football League who have been nailingkicks from you know, from deep and
you can probably get one of thoseguys on a significantly cheaper salary, probably
a third of the money at thispoint. If you're the commanders, I
mean, you know why you maywant to look at at just walking away

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from it, the negative press fromit. You're trying to establish a new
culture there in Washington. You've gotnew ownership. Uh, you've got the
new GM. You've got to inAdam Peters, you've got a new head
coach, and you know, andDan Quinn and or of course our buddy,
you know, coach John Paganoll outthere as well. They're they're trying
to establish a new culture out thereand The last thing you want is something

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negative hanging over your head that hisYou know that that doesn't have anything to
do with your organization to begin with, and whether or not you knew about
it when you signed it. Ifthe wife com Washington didn't know about it
when they signed him, then thisshould be an easy choice. You just
you cut him. You go outthere and get you one of these UFL
kickers and move on about your day. If they did know about it,

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that presents a host of problems andsuggests that the culture would not would not
really have been changed. Although persources, I was told that they did
not know about it, So Iguess we will. I guess we will
find out in the coming days whetheror not that that holds out to be
true. We come back. I'mtalking about this NFL proposal to scrap voluntary

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off season work for a longer trainingcamp. Wrap up Litener Broncos Country to
Night right here on Kawai Say fiftyam, ninety four one FM News Talk
Sports. Welcome back to it,Broncos Country Tonight. Benjamin Albright here with
you, Grant Smith back behind theGlass. Short show post Rockies edition.
We'll have a full show on Thursday, Nick ferguson the way back, and

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we'll have a chance to talk tohim about something we got coming up in
this segment about how the NFLPA wantsto overhaul some of this offseason stuff.
I want to hear his perspective audi, both as a player and somebody that
works with the NFLPA, and seewhat it is that you know they're actually
trying to accomplish. It was reportingon this back in February, but you
know, it wasn't something at thetime I think everybody thought was as serious

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perhaps as as they're attempting to pushit now and now this is something that
could be done by twenty twenty five. So we'll get to that in just
a moment. Five six sixty ninezero is the text line. I wanted
to talk real quickly about the NFLSunday ticket, which has raised anti trust
issues since its inception, which youknow, it's like third Sunday tickets,
like thirty years old. I didn'trealize it was that old. I didn't

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realize it'd been around that long.I knew have been around there since two
thousands, but I didn't realize it'dbeen around since the nineties and the NFL
has to defend the product at trialhere in about nine days. Ben Fisher
of the Sports Business Journal says thatthe litigation comes to a head on June
fifth, and the basic argument hereis that the NFL's broadcast anti trust exemption
doesn't allow it to bundle all rightsto out of market games and sell them

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as one unit. Damages could exceedsix billion dollars in this almost as problematic
for the league as that multiple NFLmovers and shakers I have to climb into
the witness box here and you know, have their stuff on the record.
Fisher notes that a settlement is unlikelybecause the two sides are very, very

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far apart. You know, There'sobviously always time for a divide to be
bridged, but in this particular case, it doesn't look like it. The
NFL is probably banking on finding asilver bullet in the way the courts have
shifted to a pro business model insteadof a pro consumer rulings over the last

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you know, twenty years or so, ten years really. But as Fisher
explains, the case presents the questionof whether the broadcast anti trust exemption applies
to other formats like satellite and thatsame issue is lingering for a pivot to
streaming as well, which you knowwe'll probably get tackled down the line.
The entire Sunday ticket experiment involves lawyersand level of anti trust issues for the

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league's sale of rights to the customerspurchase the product. So, you know,
even though it's marketed as a way, for instance, for like you
know, Saints fans in Pittsburgh tosee all the games their favorite team,
the only option is to buy everyweek for every team for the entire year.
So why do they not have anali card option that allows a fan
to buy the games for one teamone week at a time, when game

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at a time, somebody somewhere decidethe league make more money bundle it all
together, and perhaps it will,but the trial starting next week will impact
I think some of the product availablewith some of that, and that may
be something that interests only me.It may not interest you guys as much
as it does me in the sensethat I feel like that the NFL should

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switch to an all the card optionand go from there. And I'm,
you know, fairly certain that theycan make more money that way, giving
out of market fans the ability tostream and watch whatever they want. You
could buy it all together, allthirty two at X price, or you
know, by each one at adifferent you know, at a different price,
and go from there. But whatdo I know? You know,

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That's why I'm some schlove here talkingon a microphone instead of running the investment
opportunity and running the business model forthe NFL. I want to get into
this story about scrapping voluntary off seasonwork because this has been floating around since
February. Back in February twenty fifth, the NFLPA kind of leaked out that

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they were exploring the possibility of attemptinga full overhaul of the off season program.
The idea would be to replace thecurrent cluster of workouts with a pre
training camp series of sessions aimed atgetting the players ready for the season.
It wasn't something the union was planningto attempt to negotiate with the league in

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the short term. It was justexploratory, is how it was framed at
the time, and the challenge wouldbe to get the lead to agree to
something like that, maybe one ofthose things where you get to the bargaining
table and exchange it for an eighteenthregular season game something like that, you
know. So it came out todayvia Tom Pellisero, NFL Network tweeted out

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end of OTAs. The NFL PlayersAssociation is working to finalize a proposal to
overhaul the off season starting as soonas twenty twenty five, eliminating voluntary on
field work in the spring in favorof a longer training camp or ramp up,
with players reporting in mid June toearly July. The nfl PA can

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make whatever proposals it wants. Youknow, that's neither here or there.
It's not like they propose something itbecomes the standard. But they propose things
all the time. But this isone that, for whatever reason, seems
to be the one of the talkingpoints earlier today. What would the union
give up in order to get this, because, as we know, even

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if something is mutually beneficial, it'snot something you know, the owners never
give anything away for free. Billionairesdon't give things away for free. It's
they remain millionaires, right. SoIt's it's interesting to me because I wonder
what the players will concede if theyactually want this, How many players want
this, because it feels to melike this could be something that that a

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majority of players want, but ifyou dive deeper into it, they may
not. You know, this maynot be something that everybody wants. From
the science side of the house,is this probably better for injury prevention?
Probably can't say definitively, but statisticallyspeaking, it's probably better for everything else.

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I don't know that it is,because the NFL kind of has a
de facto month month and a halfvacation, you know, and being a
being a coach, being on staff, being those are difficult, time consuming
jobs. So let's step away fromthe player's side of the house here,

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because it's the NFLPA that's it's proposingthis. Let's let's move over to the
other side of this. Is basically, if you're a coach or you know,
a staff or logistics or support orwhatever, you know, the league
kind of shuts down for the monthof June, like the last week of
May, the month of June,first week of July, that kind of
thing. They basically shut down,you know, and it gives an opportunity

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for guys to reconnect with their fanamilies, take some time off from the grind,
and decompress. That's why so manythere's so many jokes about going to
Mexico this time of year, Caboand all that kind of stuff, because
it's what they do, you know, players, coaches, family staff,
all the kinds off they take,the vacations, kids are out of school,
you know, and families can kindof reconnect. And you know,

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if you're if you're a twenty fivehour a day, eight day a week,
you know, coach, scout,logistics person or whatever, you probably
don't see your family as much asyou want. And so that that moment
are having that opportunity to kind ofunplug and reset yourself before the next season
is probably vital for your mental health. And we I like, I did

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a little bit of a poll todayjust reaching out to some people, and
UH universally was told this is abad idea as it is presented now.
They suggested that, of course theycould be tweaked or that there are things
that they could do, but inthis particular situation, with regard to how
it is framed currently, they thoughtit was a bad idea. They didn't

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like it. And the reason theydidn't like it is the reasons that I
just gave you that, you know, so they're going to have to reconfigure
stuff. Oh, by the way, we probably still have kids in school
and during the new off period it'llbe shorter because you know, after the
draft and we still have to behere for the draft and all that.
They liked the idea of having theseOTAs and check in, so the coaches
like it because it keeps players accountable. You can't let yourself get sloppy and

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out of shape and all that kindof stuff. You got to keep coming
back and checking in and all thatkind of stuff, and they see it.
So there's there are multiple reasons.I think that staff, coaches,
scouts, general managers, you know, logistical support types, all this stuff
enjoy the time off that they get, you know, out of this.

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I think that you know, ifyou're if you try to have a family
life, it can be very difficult. I know, you're gonna get a
whole bunch of people literally, ohboo, who you make millions of dollars
and like, well, okay,but these you know, make it and
making money is a good thing,especially if you're a head coach. But
if you're the logistical support you know, the security guy at the Broncos or

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you're you know, you're on staff. Uh, they're at the Broncos.
You're not making millions and millions ofdollars. You know, you're making thousands
of dollars, and it's a toughjob. It demands a lot of you.
Now it's it's you know, youget to be worked for an NFL
team. I mean, that's that'sbig. But you know, at the
same time, there's a lot thatgoes into that, and so the the
the opportunity to sort of decompress andget out of a very stressful environment,

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relax, reset yourself, those kindsof things. I mean, I think
that's huge. I think that's big. And everybody that I've talked to suggests
that that making a move like thismay or may you know, may not
be beneficial. It may be detrimentalmaybe maybe helpful physically to certain players.
But is it big enough? Isit smart enough that we should reconfigure the

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way that we do things? Andthere was a lot of pushback off that
five six six nine there. Iwant to hear you guys thoughts on that.
If you think that they should convertto a late June early July report
and skip all the OTAs and allthat kind of stuff, I think the
league likes staying in the news.I think the league in and of itself
would prefer that things stay the samebecause every couple of weeks you get OTAs

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and you get something to come backto in the news, and so it
kind of strings that cycle out.But the NFL is always the top of
the news cycle. I think thecoaches, I think the staff especially like
having that time off, like whenthat time off is because it allows them
to you know, to get theirfamilies, go on vacation unencumbered for about

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a month and then kind of youknow, kind of check back in and
get back to a stressful job thatrequires a lot of time and a lot
of time away from those closest toyou. The players mixed back. I
mean, there were some that werelike sure, there's some that are like,

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man, I could use the rest, you know in between there,
you know, being around especially ifyou've got like a hard nosed coaching staff
or old school staff, you know, something like that, where you're around
that all the time. It canbe nice to get breaks from that,
you know, like it can benice to get away from that and sort
of decompress for a little bit.It could be good for the mental health.
I'm not sure that while this maybe something that physically may be better,

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we'll see mentally. I'm you know, I'm getting a lot of pushback
on that. So we'll sort ofsee as this proposal comes through and gets
laid out, and you know,what exactly comes out of it, you
know, in the end, andand sort of see where and see what
the specifics and the parameters are,you know, kind of go kind of

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go from there and and see ifthis is something that looks to be beneficial,
because you know, as it sitsright now, I'm not I'm not
one hundred percent that that this issomething that everybody wants. So five six
six nine zero is the text line. Or if you guys saw or if

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anybody has any interest in this,Mike Tyson and the YouTuber guy what's his
name, Jake Paul or doing thedoing some kind of boxing match, I
first of all, I don't knowwhat. I don't know why. Like,
you know, if if this dude, if the YouTuber guy wants to
prove he's a fighter, then gofight. You know, somebody who isn't

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fifty seven years old. Mike Tysonis darn near sixty. I don't even
remember the last time Mike fought.I'd have to go back and look off
the top of my head. Matterof fact, I can do that right
now. I like, how longhas it been since, uh, since
Mike Tyson fought? What was hislast fight? He had that twenty twenty

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thing against Roy Jones Junior, whichwas like some kind of exhibition sort of
thing, was at November of twentytwenty, and then he had his last
real fight was in two thousand andfive, so June eleventh of two thousand
and five. But it's it's beentwenty years since Mike Tyson had a real

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fight, so I don't I mean, yeah, I mean I don't.
Yeah. And in that fight,the two thousand and five Tyson was against
what was it, nay Kevin McBride, the was it? He called himself
the Clones Colossus or whatever from fromClones, Ireland, and Tyson fought this

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guy who was way way bigger thanhim. I mean, Tyson was five
ten, two thirty three. McBridewas six six two seventy one, just
huge, huge guy, and he'dbeen knocked out. Tyson had been knocked
out in the fourth round of hisprevious fight against Danny Williams. He took
a lengthy, you know, kindof hiatus. Well, he contemplated whether
or not he's gonna continue, andthen he came back thirty eight years old,

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far removed from his prime, andsaid he was gonna gonna fight McBride.
He was ostensibly ahead on the scorecardsthrough six rounds, but he failed
to answer the bell for the seventhround and was was was ruled defeated by
by t k O. Again,Uh, this is June what June eleventh

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of two thousand and five, almosttwenty years ago, nineteen years ago.
And so now he's gonna fight LoganPaul. That's the YouTuber guy is or
Jake Paul? Which ever wanted is? Whichever one of the YouTube guy.
I don't even know these guys,they're YouTubers, Jake Paul. Sorry,
it's gonna fight Jake Paul. Andhe suffered some medical emergency on a plane

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to LA where some photos of himgetting wheeled off in a wheelchair some kind
of medical emergency. Paramedics boarded theflight asked for a doctor and this was
prior to take off. The planewas delayed for two hours because the plane
was too hot due to the heatin Miami, so he was, Yeah,

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he was taking off. The planewas delayed twenty five minutes. At
that point he became nauseous and dizzy. He's claiming it was an ulcer flare
up. And this is, youknow, his his fight schedule for July
twentieth. He's thirty years older thanJake Paul, twenty years removed from any
kind of serious fight at all,and he tweets out today, I'm now

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feeling one hundred percent, even thoughI don't need to be to beat Jake
Paul, Like I mean, isanybody buying this? Is anybody buying this
fight? Because that's what this isfor. Like at the end of the
day, this is you know,they're looking at it at buys on this
last fight that Tyson had, Ithink did a quarter million buys something like
that, the Tyson McBride fight,Yeah, quarter million fives. Now I

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will say this, the lockdown knockdownthat he did against what is it Roy
Jones Junior back in twenty twenties,almost five years ago. It was sanctioned,
but it was a split draw,you know, very obvious sort of

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we're calling it a draw kind ofthing. At the Staples Center, they
did what was it one point sixmillion buys on that, So, I
mean, at that point you gotto say there's still a draw there.
So you know, the fight wasa split draw, with Chad Dawson having

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at seventy six seventy six draw,Christy Martin seventy six seventy three for Tyson,
and Vinnie Patsyana who had at seventysix eighty for Jones. Copy box
number showed that Tyson outlanded Jones bywide margin, and everybody said patsy outa
scorecard was pure insanity. So obviouslyprobably bought. But you know, that's
that's one of those things. Ijust I guess I don't understand. Is

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anybody gonna be tuned in for thisthing? Is anybody gonna be paying attention
to it? If she let meknow, I don't know. I can't
see myself paying. I'm not payingfor a fight with Jake Paul in it,
Mike Tyson, you know twenty yearsago. Yeah, Jake Paul.
Now, I'm not paying to watchyou box. Sorry, I watch you
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