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Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcast

Bill Polian

Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcast

NFL Business

Sports News, News

4.7626 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

This week, Andrew shares an interview he recorded back in June of 2020 with legendary NFL executive Bill Polian. They discuss several topics including the team owners he worked for including: - Ralph Wilson in Buffalo (12:51) - Jerry Richardson in Carolina (25:30) - Jim Irsay in Indianapolis (28:04) Andrew & Bill also talk about the end of Peyton Manning's tenure with the Colts (30:42), minority opportunities in the NFL (43:02), Colin Kaepernick's NFL job prospects/activism (49:51), & their time together at ESPN (56:37) linktr.ee/BusinessOfSports Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey there, boys and girls. Welcome to another edition of the business of sports with Andrew Brand. I'm Andrew Brand. Music underscoring me is from Sam Brand, Boy Blue Tunes, Neon Bloom, the new hit. We're going to have some rants, and we'll get to a special guest recorded earlier this year. A legendary name in the NFL. You'll be interested in hearing his story as we get to it. A little little later first a couple rants before we get to

0:23.2

our special guest bill polion i won't keep you in expense much longer bill paulian the executive

0:30.1

for the bills the panthers who had such a great career and of course the indianapolis colts

0:34.8

he's going to talk about his career and all the issues going on in

0:38.7

the NFL. He's coming up soon. First, a couple rents. Okay, one thing that being in Philadelphia,

0:45.9

I hear so much about Carson Wentz moving on, getting rid of him. He stinks. He's the worst

0:50.1

quarterback in the world. He's had some bad games. There's no question about that. But here's why the Eagles are stuck. There's no player in the NFL that has as much invested

0:59.6

in him, in my opinion, than Carson Wentz. There are some players that have a hundred million

1:04.6

dollar contracts. There's a handful of those. There are some players that have had a couple

1:09.4

number ones, maybe even more than that, traded for them.

1:13.6

There's a few of those. But that combo platter is nowhere more plentiful than with Wentz.

1:21.6

He not only has multiple ones and twos traded for him to acquire him for the Eagles.

1:28.7

But he's now had the second contract at a much higher level in the early years than someone

1:33.5

like Patrick Mahomes.

1:35.3

So he's making 150 guaranteed.

1:38.1

It is a massive deal.

1:40.8

And this is something that we're going to look at and say how are the eagles going to get out of this

1:46.2

well they can't you know this is an organizational top-down investment it's not like everyone says

1:53.0

sunk cost sunk cost is is drafting a number one pick as the a Arizona cardinals for Josh

2:00.0

Rosen and realizing

2:01.5

you can't play, you have a better option in the next draft. All right, you've got a sunk

2:05.3

cost and you get a second round pick for him. Sunk cost is if the Jets decide to move on from

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