The (Alleged) Set-Up
EPISODE 258: A three-way podcast you won't hear elsewhere.
I’m still sorting through the fallout of Tuesday’s show, wherein PTFO published the NFL’s long-rumored “holy grail” collusion ruling against the wishes of both the league and the players’ union.
Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio, my indefatigable guest on that episode, remains all over it: he built an entire Collusion tab on his site for rolling updates.
But you may recall how Mr. Domonique Foxworth — the esteemed ex-president of the NFLPA (and the former COO of the NBPA after that) — had recused himself from my reporting and declined comment.
Well.
Earlier this month, before I ever acquired the document, I had already scheduled both Domonique and Nothing Personal’s David Samson — who happens to be the ex-president of the Marlins — for another edition of Share & Tell.
Which forced a conversation that I don’t think you’ll hear anywhere else.
It’s between a true union believer; the blunt voice of America’s sports ownership class; and an investigative reporter… who swears that this wasn’t a set-up.
YOUTUBE SPOILER ALERT:
Yours,
Pablo
A question for Dominique/Pablo: given that the pool of revenue earned by players is fixed, why should the union (or fans) care about guaranteed vs. non-guaranteed contracts?
It's basically a distributional question within union members, right? And so the "winners" of guaranteed contracts are injured players and underperforming players.
I'm much more familiar with the NBA and particularly the Sixers (TTP), and like if you look at the Sixers roster, you can see the "winners" of guaranteed contracts: Paul George and Joel Embiid, neither of whom seem likely to come anywhere close to "earning" their current deals. The "losers" are Quentin Grimes and Guerschon Yabusele. Why would the union care?
Florio says:
“Good luck with that. High-profile quarterbacks are usually far closer to company men than instigators. But if one of them would want to defy that reality, there would be no complaining from the tiny little corner of the Internet.”
Yeah, Kaepernick really got “support” for being an instigator.
Oh wait, I mean “the shaft”.