Big Ben pay cut and responsibility in the workplace (3/5)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Baseball, Business

4.7 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘paycut’ as in taking less money as in ‘helping’ the team as in Ben Roethlisberger is taking a $5M paycut so that the Pittsburgh Steelers can get some cap relief. What is going on in the Steel City? Did the Steelers want Big Ben to retire? (9:10) So You Wanna Talk To Samson!? Someone asked me if front office people should be held responsible for their hiring process. This stems from the allegations against Mickey Callaway and the Cleveland Indians. (25:27) Review: The Mauritanian (33:16) NPPOD (35:15) Les Miles is going to get fired. He needs to. The allegations uncovered about his tenure at LSU is horrifying. (40:42) Creighton head coach Greg McDermott has been suspended by the school after making a ridiculous comment to his team. #waittosee Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, cut. Nothing personal word of the day. It is three five twenty one. It's happy three
0:21.4	oh five day. If you're in Miami, you know what that means. It's March 5th. It's sort of
0:25.7	like May the fourth be with you. Everyone's got a day April 20th May 4th March 5th. Anyway,
0:34.6	305 something funny will happen in Miami today. But the word of the day is pay cut. One day,
0:41.2	I want someone to explain to me just one day call me up DM me do something. Why if you have a
0:49.1	guaranteed contract. Do you say I'm willing to take a pay cut. I'm paid too much. I agree that I
0:58.2	was worth what you paid me when we signed the contract. But now that I've made it through each
1:02.6	year of the contract and it's the end of the contract. It's too much. 19 million dollars for me.
1:09.3	Ben Rathlisberger. No way. I'll take less. Is that what happened in Pittsburgh? No. Ben
1:18.6	Rathlisberger. One of the great guys. Great team guys says I'm going to take a pay cut to make
1:23.7	the team better. No. I'm not sure that happened either. Let's see if we can go through the chronology
1:30.9	of events that started with the Steelers starting 11 and no finishing 12 and four being unsurprisingly
1:36.4	bounced to the playoffs having won one Super Bowl. Not bad. Don't get me wrong.
1:41.3	Having trouble not winning. Owner of the team comes out and says listen folks,
1:48.1	it's very hard to deal with an aging superstar. But the one thing I can tell you is Ben Rathlisberger
1:53.9	will not be back with the Steelers under his current contract. At which time Ben Rathlisberger said,
2:00.5	no worries. Don't cut me. Don't release me. Don't save all the caps space because I won't have
2:06.9	any money. Who's going to sign me? There's five quarterbacks available to be traded. Three more
2:12.1	getting drafted. Let's restructure. Ooh, I like to hear that when a player says that that means
2:20.0	we got him by the. I was going to say short and curly's but I don't even know what that is.
2:26.0	We got him by the Gennigs. The Gennicta Gazoins. So the Steelers front office gets together
2:36.0	and they have to figure out how to deal with this issue. Much like many teams have to deal with
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