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Welcome to another edition of the Business of Sports with Andrew Brand.

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bonus today. Betonline.ag. I've got some rants. It's a branch, rants edition of the business of

sports. As we hit in the early part of the NFL season, it's usually a time of turnover.

You really talk about the games and the players, but the business continues to run on, and I'll do another branch rants.

We'll get into some more guests in future weeks, but I want to talk about at least three rants here.

The first one I want to talk about this least three rants here the first one i want to talk about this

idea now with jalen ramsie wanting to be traded and hear about two number one picks and the

the trade of mika fitzpatrick to the steelers for a number one pick what went on with our friend

ntonio brown what went on with zeke elli what went on with you, Dave and Clowny. So many people are asking me, is this a template? Is this something

that's going to happen? Is the player empowerment become a real thing in the NFL? And people

are even comparing it or suggesting a comparison to the NBA. So I want to address that, sort of put a kibosh on the latter thought.

First of all, yes, what we're seeing in this year, and I would say last year, too,

because that included Aaron Donald, who tried it two years ago, came back,

tail between his legs, did not get a new contract.

Last year, of course, did.

Khalil Mack as well last year.

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