Fallout from Calvin Ridley suspension + Franchise tag deadline reports
PFT Live with Mike Florio
Mike Florio
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🗓️ 8 March 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's not something we can talk about right now. |
| 0:06.0 | There's no update on it. |
| 0:08.0 | And when there is, we'll let you know. |
| 0:10.0 | All they let us know. |
| 0:16.0 | All they let us know, |
| 0:18.0 | yesterday, the update on Calvin Ridley. |
| 0:22.5 | A Monday afternoon, bad news dump. Usually happens on Friday. Not sure why it didn't happen last |
| 0:28.1 | Friday. Maybe they didn't want to drop a turd into the combine punch bowl. That really, probably. |
| 0:33.4 | I hadn't thought about that. I really hadn't thought about that. That's probably the case. Yes. Probably the case. Right. Maybe even part of reason, maybe part of the reason is do it on a Monday, make sure it does catch news. Make sure it does set an example for the rest of the league. Maybe this is something in the NFL is, yeah, they're not going to shy away from. This has got to be a firm no. Like, this can't happen. |
| 0:55.1 | And they're just realized they've got to fight this one head on. |
| 0:58.2 | And for those of you who wonder what we're talking about, |
| 1:00.4 | Calvin Ridley of the Falcons has been suspended for at least a year for betting on games |
| 1:06.5 | during the time that he was on the non-football illness list away from the team in Florida |
| 1:10.6 | with his cell phone device, made some wagers, bet on the Falcons as part of a parlay. |
| 1:18.7 | $1,500, he admits he bet, and he gave up the goods when the NFL found out about it. |
| 1:27.6 | The NFL was alerted to it by a third-party vendor. |
| 1:30.8 | It's all electronic. |
| 1:31.8 | It's all available. |
| 1:32.6 | It's not like in the old days when you had a bookie and nobody knew anything about anyone. |
| 1:36.5 | And it was easier to avoid creating a clear electronic footprint of your activities. |
| 1:42.1 | So if nothing else, what Calvin Ridley did was extremely |
| 1:46.3 | stupid. Before we go any farther, I would like to say hello to our audience. Peacock, Sirius XM85. |
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