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Speaker 1: with Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere.

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Speaker 1: We are back at it. Another weekend has kicked off.

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Speaker 1: Big Ben, and we thank you for supporting the radio show.

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Speaker 1: And as you know by now, this podcast is a

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Speaker 1: As we begin to new this weekend and the biggest

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Speaker 1: that are scorming right now. A bunch of NFL owners

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Speaker 1: Dan Lusti also hosts a very popular sports law podcast,

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Speaker 1: his own podcast, Conduct Detrimental. So Dan, let's get right

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Speaker 1: into it, the story of the week involving Brian Flores.

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Speaker 1: You've been all over it providing some great perspective on this.

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Speaker 1: It was sent out about an hour after the text

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Speaker 1: the lawsuit was filed, and it ends with Brian Flores'

428
00:20:12,119 --> 00:20:17,000
Speaker 1: claims are without merit. So you know, you can convince

429
00:20:17,080 --> 00:20:19,200
Speaker 1: me that the claim his legal cases have got married.

430
00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:21,600
Speaker 1: You're not really going to convince me that his claim

431
00:20:21,960 --> 00:20:24,360
Speaker 1: that the NFL has a real diversity problem. That that's

432
00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:27,080
Speaker 1: without Marrit That's pretty clear, right, Mike Tomlin is the

433
00:20:27,119 --> 00:20:30,680
Speaker 1: only uh you know blackhead coach's only six general managers

434
00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:33,400
Speaker 1: that are black and I have no owners. So yeah,

435
00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:35,880
Speaker 1: I mean it's subjective. Um. And then the other part

436
00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:38,959
Speaker 1: is like, I don't know Stephen Ross this allegation that

437
00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:41,920
Speaker 1: he paid uh you know Flora's a hundred thousands to

438
00:20:42,840 --> 00:20:45,600
Speaker 1: tank games. I don't know how you say that without merit,

439
00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:49,080
Speaker 1: without conducting a full blown investigation. So my advice to

440
00:20:49,119 --> 00:20:52,240
Speaker 1: the NFL would have been, let's let you have your statement,

441
00:20:52,320 --> 00:20:55,520
Speaker 1: not emphatically say that Flora's is one percent raw. That

442
00:20:55,680 --> 00:20:58,359
Speaker 1: doesn't make any sense. Um, it should be re launching

443
00:20:58,359 --> 00:21:01,040
Speaker 1: a full and unfettered investigation. We're prepared to defend this,

444
00:21:01,119 --> 00:21:03,000
Speaker 1: but you know, we take these claims very seriously. We

445
00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:05,200
Speaker 1: were launching a full investigation. We'll have more on this

446
00:21:05,280 --> 00:21:07,600
Speaker 1: at a later point in time. Without the statement, that

447
00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:12,480
Speaker 1: don't completely pro proved. Brian Flores, who's I think whether

448
00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:14,480
Speaker 1: he wins to loses his case, I think he's right

449
00:21:14,520 --> 00:21:17,080
Speaker 1: that there is a diversity problem and something needs to

450
00:21:17,080 --> 00:21:19,080
Speaker 1: be done about it. If the NFL doesn't want to

451
00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:22,240
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean that's kind of what their

452
00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:25,400
Speaker 1: message said, that there's nothing here and we're gonna swiftly

453
00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:27,439
Speaker 1: move and we're gonna get this case dismissed. Nothing to

454
00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:30,960
Speaker 1: see here onto the Super Bowl. Let's talk about Brady's retirement. Um,

455
00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:32,840
Speaker 1: that's how I read it, which I think was was

456
00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:36,520
Speaker 1: definitely inappropriate. Yeah, And based on what you've said here

457
00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:39,440
Speaker 1: and kind of reading, reading the room and hearing things,

458
00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:42,760
Speaker 1: and does your gut tell you that if we have

459
00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:47,080
Speaker 1: this conversation in February of three, that this thing is

460
00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:51,480
Speaker 1: still out there or does this end up vanishing by

461
00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:54,879
Speaker 1: next NFL season, which is in September. What's what is

462
00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:58,399
Speaker 1: more likely to happen? What do you think we're gonna know?

463
00:21:58,840 --> 00:22:03,000
Speaker 1: I want to say in about days. If so, the

464
00:22:03,080 --> 00:22:05,840
Speaker 1: NFL is gonna move to dismiss, which they always do.

465
00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:07,560
Speaker 1: They moved to do it in the Grooting case. They

466
00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:10,680
Speaker 1: always moved to dismiss, we'll know. And if that says

467
00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:12,760
Speaker 1: right around and maybe a little bit longer, if the

468
00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:14,720
Speaker 1: judge agrees with that, kind of the case would be

469
00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:16,640
Speaker 1: kicked out of court. And if it's not kicked out

470
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Speaker 1: of court, because when you entered discovery, so I don't

471
00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:22,720
Speaker 1: discovery takes years, right, I mean it's it's a long process.

472
00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:25,359
Speaker 1: So we'll know and you know, again at six and

473
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Speaker 1: ninety period, if this case is going to go a year,

474
00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:30,920
Speaker 1: two years, three years, um, because that's how long takes

475
00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:33,520
Speaker 1: to depose all these people, to depose all thirty two teams.

476
00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:35,920
Speaker 1: It took that St. Louis Ram's case that was, you know,

477
00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:38,480
Speaker 1: alleging that the NFL committed a fraud by moving the

478
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Speaker 1: team from St. Louis Los Angeles. You know, it legitimately

479
00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:44,320
Speaker 1: took that case four years to get ready for trial. Um.

480
00:22:44,359 --> 00:22:47,119
Speaker 1: And it didn't have the same type of sensitive undertones

481
00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:49,879
Speaker 1: that this case does. And that this case will be

482
00:22:49,880 --> 00:22:54,040
Speaker 1: playing out very publicly. So yeah, I you know, asked

483
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Speaker 1: me to bet on it right now. Uh, And I think,

484
00:22:56,560 --> 00:22:58,480
Speaker 1: as you know, I'm a I'm a betting guy. I'd

485
00:22:58,520 --> 00:23:02,680
Speaker 1: say I'd say be minus two that this case is

486
00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:05,480
Speaker 1: around a year from today. Bet the over. You gotta

487
00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:09,760
Speaker 1: bet the over on this is what you gotta do. Yeah.

488
00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:12,960
Speaker 1: And the John Gruden's story, now this is kind of

489
00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:17,040
Speaker 1: off the radar, is not getting that much attention. Uh legally,

490
00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:21,359
Speaker 1: you know, does does Gruden have a leg to stand on.

491
00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:24,800
Speaker 1: I know that there was a suit file as you

492
00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:26,760
Speaker 1: you talked about the NFL im mediately tried to dismiss

493
00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:31,479
Speaker 1: it and all this stuff. But we're Gruden's at right now.

494
00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:33,640
Speaker 1: He's also probably not gonna work in the NFL game.

495
00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:36,840
Speaker 1: But is there any kind of way that he can

496
00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:42,240
Speaker 1: get some money out of the NFL and actually win this? Um?

497
00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:44,280
Speaker 1: I mean it's another case kind of what we're talking

498
00:23:44,280 --> 00:23:46,679
Speaker 1: about with for It's like, I don't really think really

499
00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:50,280
Speaker 1: cares about the money. UM. I think Gruden losing his

500
00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:53,439
Speaker 1: job with the with the Raiders and whatever endorsements. I

501
00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:55,560
Speaker 1: think he had a sketcher's deal. How much money was

502
00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:57,879
Speaker 1: that really work? Uh? He had signed a ten year

503
00:23:57,920 --> 00:23:59,560
Speaker 1: I think a hundred million dollar contract. I think he

504
00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:02,360
Speaker 1: was a couple years in. It is at fifty million,

505
00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:05,280
Speaker 1: you know at most, um, you know, maybe a little

506
00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:08,600
Speaker 1: bit more for the endorsements. UM, I don't. I don't

507
00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:10,720
Speaker 1: really think he was entitled to that number one is

508
00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:12,320
Speaker 1: that canna be titled to the whole amount? Because it's

509
00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:14,320
Speaker 1: you know, will you have kept his job anyway? You know,

510
00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:17,880
Speaker 1: the Raiders were kind of a middling team, right, Um,

511
00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:20,040
Speaker 1: But I don't, I don't think it's a guy that

512
00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:21,880
Speaker 1: cares about money. I think that the guy that cares

513
00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:25,679
Speaker 1: about his reputation being destroyed, uh and wants to see

514
00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:28,920
Speaker 1: why they leave the emails? Who else was in it? Um? Whatnot?

515
00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:31,480
Speaker 1: If you asked me, I actually I actually think that

516
00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:35,760
Speaker 1: Gruden's cases and hopefully old takes exposes and find me

517
00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:38,640
Speaker 1: on this. But like, I think there's some credibility there

518
00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:40,800
Speaker 1: to the to the gruten case. Maybe it's an easier

519
00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:44,159
Speaker 1: case to prove than the Florida's case because, like I

520
00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:46,840
Speaker 1: don't know, there's hundreds of thousands of emails, and only

521
00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:49,119
Speaker 1: the emails that are leaked belonged to John Gruden, So

522
00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:52,000
Speaker 1: that seems to be someone selectively doing it. And then

523
00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:55,720
Speaker 1: only three people had the emails, the lawyers for Washington

524
00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:59,080
Speaker 1: Football team, Washington Football team. I guess now the commanders

525
00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:02,440
Speaker 1: will call them in the NFL that was it. So

526
00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:05,640
Speaker 1: someone like the emails, and I think everyone can agree

527
00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:09,199
Speaker 1: whoever leaked probably committed some type of you know, some

528
00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:11,439
Speaker 1: type of tortious element, some type of that has some

529
00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:14,520
Speaker 1: type of legal liability. So it was either Washington Football team,

530
00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:17,359
Speaker 1: the lawyers, or the NFL. Right, it's you've just gotta

531
00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:20,600
Speaker 1: take your poison here, whereas you know in the Floor's case,

532
00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:23,240
Speaker 1: you's gonna prove this. It's thirty two teams, gotta prove

533
00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:25,760
Speaker 1: some collective elements. It's certainly a much tougher sell well.

534
00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:28,240
Speaker 1: And also Gruden was not an employee of the NFL

535
00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:31,200
Speaker 1: right at the time, so when when those emails were sent, Uh,

536
00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:35,480
Speaker 1: he was not working for the NFL. And it is interesting.

537
00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:37,720
Speaker 1: I remember we were talking about that on the radio show,

538
00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:41,359
Speaker 1: and those emails were all leaked to like major newspapers

539
00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:43,679
Speaker 1: in New York, which I know the lawyer, a lot

540
00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:45,360
Speaker 1: of lawyers in New York and when you're in New York,

541
00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:48,120
Speaker 1: but it just seemed like it's right near the NFL offices,

542
00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:52,439
Speaker 1: Like it was just too too convenient that that took place.

543
00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:57,400
Speaker 1: But moving on from that, though, Dan, the Commanders, you've

544
00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:00,240
Speaker 1: had some great stuff on social media, and I know

545
00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:04,359
Speaker 1: you've got the podcast as well, The Commanders the Ultimate

546
00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:09,080
Speaker 1: Bland nickname and uh, it's just just generic. I guess

547
00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:11,640
Speaker 1: we're in the age now where you can't have anything fun.

548
00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:15,119
Speaker 1: But you brought up a great point on on social

549
00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:17,840
Speaker 1: media that one of the reasons that we have this

550
00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:21,520
Speaker 1: not only because everyone gets offended by everything these days.

551
00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:25,600
Speaker 1: But also there was some random guy, right I guess

552
00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:30,080
Speaker 1: in Virginia who has been waiting for this name change

553
00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:32,800
Speaker 1: and it had been hoarding different names. Explain kind of

554
00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:36,040
Speaker 1: walked me through what this guy was able to pull

555
00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:41,119
Speaker 1: off and apparently successfully pull off and stonewall a billion

556
00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:46,480
Speaker 1: four billion dollar NFL team. I'm so hoping you bring

557
00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:48,480
Speaker 1: this up like the sports laws now in the last

558
00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:50,720
Speaker 1: you know, you're so getting a nice platform. I've been

559
00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:53,639
Speaker 1: aware of all these like little niche stories for years,

560
00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:57,240
Speaker 1: and it's nice that they're coming out. There's a random

561
00:26:57,280 --> 00:27:01,080
Speaker 1: actuary from Virginia. He has no time to the NFL.

562
00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:03,480
Speaker 1: He has He's just a random guy. If you looked

563
00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:05,119
Speaker 1: at him on the street, you wouldn't look twice. Just

564
00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:08,360
Speaker 1: some random dude. And a couple of years ago he goes,

565
00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:11,560
Speaker 1: you know what, I think the name Redskins is probably

566
00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:13,679
Speaker 1: going to get in trouble with Maybe this guy was

567
00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:16,919
Speaker 1: like maybe, like, um, you know, an early investor in crypto,

568
00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:19,439
Speaker 1: he saw the trend happening before it really came to be,

569
00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:21,719
Speaker 1: and he said, you know, it would be fun if

570
00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:26,000
Speaker 1: I just started trademarking all these names. Uh, Washington Presidents,

571
00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:31,440
Speaker 1: Washington Monuments, Washington Justice, Washington Red Tails, which I guess

572
00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:34,680
Speaker 1: is a very popular name. Washington read Wolves, you know,

573
00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:37,359
Speaker 1: another popular name that I guess people Washington really wanted.

574
00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:41,080
Speaker 1: So while he's doing this, Dan Stider is being interviews,

575
00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:43,960
Speaker 1: you know, very public interviews and saying we will never

576
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:47,159
Speaker 1: change the name. Never you could print that, um. And

577
00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:48,800
Speaker 1: this guy's just sitting here, you know, a lot of

578
00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:53,080
Speaker 1: the trademarking about thirty names of pretty you know good,

579
00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:55,679
Speaker 1: you know good. I don't know solid names that I

580
00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:58,480
Speaker 1: would think are better than commanders. So this guy does it.

581
00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:02,040
Speaker 1: He starts opening up an online store with mugs and

582
00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:04,680
Speaker 1: hats and T shirts. And for trademark law, you need

583
00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:06,560
Speaker 1: to just prove you had a good faith basis for

584
00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:08,679
Speaker 1: using the name you were putting into commercial use. So

585
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:11,920
Speaker 1: he's selling like two mugs a T shirt with the

586
00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:16,199
Speaker 1: Washington Monuments on it, and and that you know was

587
00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:19,960
Speaker 1: viewed by some as being legitimate. So fast forward and

588
00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:22,359
Speaker 1: obviously we know what happened. Washington announces the name change

589
00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:26,000
Speaker 1: and Jason write the team president I thought had the

590
00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:29,680
Speaker 1: most telling interview. He goes, well, there were other names

591
00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:32,280
Speaker 1: we wanted, but you know, there was kind there was

592
00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:34,520
Speaker 1: some trademark issues and we kind of had to go

593
00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:37,040
Speaker 1: a different route. And I'm sitting there, you know, like

594
00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:39,440
Speaker 1: that Leonardo DiCaprio meme when he's like spitting up his

595
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:42,320
Speaker 1: beer and pointing at the television, I'm like, that's my guy,

596
00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:46,680
Speaker 1: Martin McAuley. You know, you just stone wall the billion

597
00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:50,440
Speaker 1: dollar team into submission. So if you're unhappy with the

598
00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:53,640
Speaker 1: commander's name, Um, there's a there's a there's a world

599
00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:55,479
Speaker 1: where you should be chuckling a little bit that this

600
00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:59,560
Speaker 1: one guy was able to disrupt the whole NFL momentum.

601
00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:02,520
Speaker 1: And it's really a crazy story. Maybe a movie someday, Yeah,

602
00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:05,760
Speaker 1: that definitely has You could see that on the big screen.

603
00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:08,800
Speaker 1: Like had just selling your kind of disheveled guy and

604
00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:12,120
Speaker 1: he's just because it doesn't cost that much, my my

605
00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:15,720
Speaker 1: correct name, like the way to get something copyrighted or

606
00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:19,200
Speaker 1: trademark or whatever. It's not it's not that expensive, right,

607
00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:20,680
Speaker 1: Like he didn't How much do you think the guy

608
00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:24,320
Speaker 1: was spending to trademark all these different names. It must

609
00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:27,080
Speaker 1: not have been that much. I would think probably for

610
00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:30,560
Speaker 1: four figures, you know, maybe low five figures. It's not

611
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:33,360
Speaker 1: going to be that much, but we're the critical flow

612
00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:36,040
Speaker 1: was for Washington. Um, as far as I know when

613
00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:39,240
Speaker 1: when Dantonner said we're never changing the name, I imagine right,

614
00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:41,320
Speaker 1: if I'm a lawyer, I would probably have said, well, Dan,

615
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:43,160
Speaker 1: I know you never change the name. You know, if

616
00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:44,600
Speaker 1: you do change it, shouldn't we get back up? It's

617
00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:46,520
Speaker 1: hoping it cost us like a thousand bucks. You know,

618
00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:49,560
Speaker 1: what do you think? And UM, I don't think they

619
00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:52,440
Speaker 1: did that. That was the mistake from the legal perspective, Like,

620
00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:54,640
Speaker 1: I don't know, you don't You can say you're never

621
00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:57,200
Speaker 1: changing the name, but you know, um, at least spending

622
00:29:57,240 --> 00:29:59,360
Speaker 1: thousand bucks. You guys are worth a billion dollars, so

623
00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:02,240
Speaker 1: bi in and tickets every year. Get a backup name

624
00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:04,280
Speaker 1: so you don't look really stupid and you have some

625
00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:07,640
Speaker 1: random Virginia actually talking on you and making you look

626
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:12,800
Speaker 1: incredibly incompetent. Absolutely, Uh A little time left. I wanted

627
00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:15,560
Speaker 1: to talk about Deshaun Watson. You mentioned you referenced in earlier.

628
00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:19,000
Speaker 1: This is also a fascinating, you know, sports law case

629
00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:22,800
Speaker 1: that he's missed an entire season. This thing is still

630
00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:25,760
Speaker 1: dragging on and on and on. I know we're after

631
00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:28,200
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl here, there's supposed to be some new

632
00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:31,640
Speaker 1: revelations that are gonna come out here, and you mentioned

633
00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:34,920
Speaker 1: the publicity part of it, but he's already missed a year.

634
00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:38,160
Speaker 1: Nobody wants to trade for Watson because this is still

635
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:42,040
Speaker 1: hanging around with these different women. And I'll ask you

636
00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:44,760
Speaker 1: a question I asked earlier about the NFL case with

637
00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:48,960
Speaker 1: with Flores. Uh. We have this conversation, we have you

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Speaker 1: backed in in September, the NFL is about to start

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Speaker 1: another season. Is Deshaun Watson's legal trouble over or is

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Speaker 1: this thing continuing? What do you think happens with Watson?

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Speaker 1: We're about to hit an interesting point with Watson. Um,

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Speaker 1: whether or not you want to believe before it said

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Speaker 1: they've been wrong before. There's reportedly a grand jury that

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Speaker 1: is in the process of convening. You know, it's almost

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Speaker 1: upends depends what the deal is, but the grand jury

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Speaker 1: will announce whether or not there's criminal charges. Um. The

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Speaker 1: d A could have made that decision on their own,

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Speaker 1: but they wanted to give it to the grand jury,

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Speaker 1: probably because you know, it's a high profile guy, pretty

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Speaker 1: popular in Houston, and maybe the d A did we

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Speaker 1: wanted to put the blame on on the jury or

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Speaker 1: the grand jury. If they, you know, indicted him on

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Speaker 1: criminal charges, that's gonna happen. I mean people have saying

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Speaker 1: it's gonna happen any minute. It's been eleven months and

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Speaker 1: we haven't had it. I imagine, you know, we're getting

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Speaker 1: closer there. Um, if there are criminal charges, I don't

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Speaker 1: think Watson is ready. I think Watson gets kind of,

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Speaker 1: you know, the Michael Vick treatment, and he just put

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Speaker 1: put in the background for years. I don't know. Michael

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Speaker 1: Vick was legitimately sent to prison, Um, you know, and

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Speaker 1: that happened fairly quickly. I don't. I think it's two

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Speaker 1: premature say that with Watson. But I think if you're

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Speaker 1: a betting man again as as I am, Um, I

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Speaker 1: think that maybe it's less than it's certainly less. It's

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Speaker 1: closer to even money. But I think you'd predict that

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Speaker 1: there'd be some form of criminal charges that the a's

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Speaker 1: officers circling this. They sent out subpoenas for his social

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Speaker 1: media accounts. They put a lot of time into this case.

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Speaker 1: It would be odd for them to walk away with nothing. Um.

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Speaker 1: I heard the same reports, which I'm sure you did that.

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Speaker 1: The Carolina Panthers were considering potentially trading for him, even

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Speaker 1: though this was hanging over his head, and ultimately they

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Speaker 1: did not. Um that the Dolphins, you know, speaking of

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Speaker 1: Brian Flores, that those guys were thinking of trading criminal

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Speaker 1: ultimately did not. The trade window opens back up on

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Speaker 1: March sixteen, so pretty soon. Um, if there are no

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Speaker 1: criminal charges by that time, it's possible a team takes

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Speaker 1: a chance. Um, but again, my my gut, I'll take

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Speaker 1: whatever the over is. I'll certainly go with it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so that's the case. Then even on a civil thing,

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Speaker 1: if it doesn't become criminal and he ends up having

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Speaker 1: you know, he loses, then he's going to be suspended.

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Speaker 1: I think he's suspended either way, which is weird because

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Speaker 1: he's aready missed a season. So anyway, listen, I I

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Speaker 1: love you on on Twitter, falling you from afar there

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Speaker 1: and you're you've got your podcast. How can people keep

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Speaker 1: in contact, get caught up on all the sports law

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Speaker 1: and you're blowing up here, You're on TV radio, you're everywhere.

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Speaker 1: You're You're a one man machine over there. Dan. It's

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Speaker 1: it's very impressive. Um, I appreciate it um and uh, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean we're getting lucky with a couple of big stories.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm on social media at sports law Lust

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Speaker 1: on Twitter and Instagram. Uh. And then our podcast called

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Speaker 1: Conduct Detrimental. Obviously we dedicated a full episode to the

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Speaker 1: Brian Floyd stuff. We've done Washington football team, DeShawn Watson. Um.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, the Conduct Detrimental is uh the top sports

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Speaker 1: lave podcast in the world. I'm not sure that's saying

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Speaker 1: much because there's only like three of us, but people

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Speaker 1: say top sports lave podcast in the history of humanity.

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Speaker 1: I think that's even better. Well, I want you to

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Speaker 1: know Dan, I you know, I love I'm fascinated. I'm

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Speaker 1: jealous that you get to work in that world because

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Speaker 1: I every time I'm doing sports radio and it's pretty

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Speaker 1: standard fair, but anytime one of these stories comes up,

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Speaker 1: I imagine myself as a lawyer, and I try to

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Speaker 1: think like a lawyer, and it's a I always have

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Speaker 1: a lot of fun with these things. So I appreciate

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Speaker 1: your expertise, and thank you. We'll have you on again,

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Speaker 1: and good luck, thank you, my pleasure you tom me

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