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PFT Live with Mike Florio

Michael Thomas is the best _______; NFL expands Rooney Rule| 5/20 #1

PFT Live with Mike Florio

Mike Florio

Sports

4.31.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

NFL owners voted to expand the Rooney Rule to promote minority hiring, but it listened to Tony Dungy and stopped short of giving teams higher draft picks. Florio, Simms and Peter King break down what these changes mean for the league's coaching landscape. Also part of the changes was teams no longer being able to block assistant coaches from interviewing for other jobs, which the guys think is long overdue. Fill In The Blank, WR Edition: Michael Thomas is the best _________ As Adam Thielen pointed out, the altered offseason could kill the careers of undrafted rookie free agents.

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0:00.0

In my mind, this is drastic.

0:03.0

I don't personally think it's the right thing to do.

0:06.0

I just have never been in favor of rewarding people for doing the right thing.

0:12.0

And so I think there's going to be some unintended consequences.

0:15.0

To me, it's almost like the past interference rule.

0:17.0

Yeah, we need to do something.

0:19.0

I don't know if this is exactly it. We need to

0:21.5

keep working until we find out what that best thing is to do. Oh, the influence of Hall of Fame

0:31.6

head coach Tony Dungey. That was Dungey with me on Monday on the eve of a vote that occurred yesterday regarding

0:39.2

potentially revolutionary changes to the Rooney rule.

0:43.0

And it was Dungy's voice that had a very significant hand in the outcome of yesterday's

0:49.1

voice, all detail, or vote rather, all details on that coming up throughout the course of the morning.

0:55.0

For now, let me say good morning to my two co-hosts today, Chris Sims from his home,

1:01.1

Peter King from his home. It's a three-man weave Wednesday gentleman. Peter, good morning.

1:05.8

How are you? Good morning, Mike. I, you know, just very quickly.

1:12.6

I think this is one of the toughest issues I've ever seen the NFL try to resolve.

1:20.9

And everybody said, oh, a bunch of idiots, this, that, and the other thing.

1:24.6

It is so complicated.

1:27.1

I don't know how you feel, Chris, but I just don't see

1:30.1

an easy solution or an even moderately complicated solution. No, I'm with you. It is very difficult.

1:37.8

First off, it's very tough to tell any business owner how to run their business, right? But also,

1:43.1

there's a culture here that's infused

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