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PFT Live with Mike Florio

Dolphins first, Steelers worst in leaked NFLPA report cards + Colts give Anthony Richardson permission to seek a trade (2/27 Hour 1)

PFT Live with Mike Florio

Mike Florio

Sports

4.31.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Hour 1: Mike Florio (@ProFootballTalk) and Chris Simms (@CSimmsQB) discuss latest news in NFL including the NFLPA report card survey getting leaked, Colts giving Anthony Richardson permission to seek a trade, and Steelers proposing a communication change during free agency negotiation period.

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0:00.0

Coming up today on PFT Live, we interview Heisman Trophy winner and presumptive number one overall pick Fernando Mendoza, plus many other top prospects from the scouting combine.

0:09.3

Also, the NFLPA report cards are out. Who scored well and who scored poorly?

0:15.6

All that and more when PFT Live begins next.

0:20.5

I'm a student of the game. Okay. Okay. Do you know who he is? I don't know. I don't know. Hey, just so you know, he's a little sensitive about the fact. I'm on the wall. He's a little sensitive. The players of the year. Today's players don't know who he is. They have a portrait of me in the facility. You didn't know who I'm just, I'm, my dad's going to be mad at me. He's going to be mad at me. Good, dad, get him for me when he gets home. Please do. Michael Tap, my new favorite Texas Longhorn. Oh, don't do that. Don't do that. You look way different in that. Oh, he's trying to clean up now.

0:55.4

That's good. You look way different than that. Oh, he's trying to clean up now.

0:58.1

That's good.

1:03.3

That was my favorite moment of the week.

1:08.0

Michael Taft sat here with Chris Sims for 10 minutes and had no idea it was Chris Sims. Oh, that was good.

1:08.8

That really was good.

1:09.7

And then when he left, he came back to the set to say, I didn't know you were Chris Sims. He literally came right there as you saw and he goes, wait, are you Chris Sims? And I said, yes. And he goes, I mean, I just, you know, she told me you went to Texas, but I didn't know. And then he said, you look different in that picture. in was like, well, yeah, I had, you know, big, big, you know, bushy hair.

1:31.7

And I think the picture he really saw, I got my helmet on, so he's not going to really know me either way. But he was a great kid, and that was a lot of fun. We had fun yesterday. We had fun the day before. And today we're going to have some fun too because the schedule tells me that the presumptive first overall pick in the draft is getting stopping by during the live program. So if you are tuning in now, don't touch that dial if there even is a dial to touch anymore. No, there's not a dial to touch. Just stay in front of your computer. Yeah, no, no. I I mean, Fernando Mendoza. Pete's not going to trigger me

2:01.3

either. Pete's going to try. Pete's already talking to me. I heard him. I'm excited, though, to meet him. Nonetheless, as you know, I always like to look at the guy, size him up. We get a good feel for the quarterbacks, their demeanor or all that. And then with Mendoza, too, So let's see if we can crack the coat on him a little bit, right?

2:17.7

I mean, he's really,

2:18.6

every time I watch him do an answer or anything, it's the most perfect answer in the history of interviews, right? So I want to know about the guy a little bit. I want him to like, I want to see if we can loosen him up a little bit and not get the, you know, perfunctory. How do you said that word?

2:32.4

For functory. It's close. You're getting better.

2:35.1

My real question is, is he going to talk to us or is he going to look into you know, perfunctory. How do you say that word? Perfunctory. It's close. You're getting better.

2:35.1

My real question is, is he going to talk to us or is he going to look into his single camera every time?

2:40.2

I'm going to do, too. I'm going to call him out if he does it. I'm going to go, hey, we're here. We're right here. What are you doing over there? Let me teach you something.

2:45.6

You know how to play quarterback, but I'm going to teach you about TV a little bit, NBC style.

2:49.5

Now, we will invite him eventually if I remember to do, to look into the camera and say hello to anyone he wants to. I enjoy that, and it only took me like seven times here at the Combine with the prospects to think, I'd just give them a chance to say hello to whoever they want to. And some of the guys get a little choked up. Yeah, yeah. You know, but it's always mom and dad. It's always mom and dad. It's hot mom. Yeah. Mom's first, always.

3:11.2

And that's the way it is.

3:11.4

I mean,

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