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Nothing Personal with David Samson

ALL IN on new NFL Rules; MLB battle happening this weekend

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.73.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘backdoor’ as in let’s talk about some new NFL rules. I am all for the new Onside Kick rule of getting rid of that and implementing a 4th and 15 instead (0:06). MLBPA responds to MLB health protocol with the obvious responses including more testing, clubhouse rule adjustments and protection of families and at risk players and staff. Here’s what’s happening and what will happen next. Unions have leaks too. How did the media get their hands on an MLBPA memo? This is how it happened and the fallout from it. The Washington Nationals are having a virtual ring ceremony this weekend! MLBeard Challenge Day 68: Nats4Good Community Response Fund. Review - A Most Wanted Man (plus my Top 5 Philip Seymour Hoffman movies). So You Wanna Talk To Samson!? Someone asked me why other leagues don't have a lending program like the NFL after the Rams received $500M (38:00). #waittosee ---------------------------   'Nothing Personal with David Samson' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Bullhorn and wherever else you listen to podcasts.   Follow David on Twitter: @DavidPSamson  To watch David on CBS Sports HQ visit https://www.cbssports.com/live/ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Back door. That's the nothing personal word of the day today. Back door. Now get your

0:13.4

mind out of the gutter. I'm talking about a back door cover. You know what that is in

0:18.9

gambling? Well, if you're on CBS Sports HQ, we're all about gambling fantasy. You know

0:24.1

what it is. A football team is favored by 14 points. They're up by 15 and the losing

0:31.4

team at the end of the game does a hell marry. Scores are meaningless touchdown and the

0:37.2

underdog covers. That's called a back door cover. Or in basketball, you're up nine, running

0:42.9

out the clock. And all of a sudden, a steal. The line is eight. You've got the favorite.

0:48.9

The other team goes in for a layup. Boom. You've just been back door. Why might even thinking

0:56.0

about this? Well, other than the fact that it's a Tuesday, I'm thinking about it because

1:00.7

the NFL came out yesterday with a bunch of possible rule changes. We talked about the

1:06.0

diversity. We're not talking about that. The Rooney rule. We're talking about on field,

1:10.7

possible proposed rule changes. One of them that is the most meaningful and the one I love

1:17.3

is about onside kicks. They changed the rules with onside kicks a couple of years ago.

1:22.4

And the likelihood of recovering your own onside kick went from about 20% to 10%. So if

1:27.9

you're down to touchdowns, you score a touchdown, you then do an onside kicks to get the ball

1:31.3

back so you can get the ball back and try to score again and tie the game or go for two

1:34.6

when the game, whatever the case may be. But they made the rules because of all of the

1:38.7

players getting concussed. They didn't want all sorts of crazy high speed contacts. So

1:44.8

the offensive team, the kicking team couldn't run, get a head start, yada yada, onside kicks

1:51.3

became so boring. If you're team, you're rooting for a team that's out of it, you're rooting

1:54.4

for a back door cover, you're not getting it. No one's recovering onside kick. It would

1:58.7

just take a major mistake. When the XFL was still in business, that's the Vince McMahon

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