Mike Freeman on NFL's anthem policy, Russell Wilson's role, league's LeBron? (Football 06/01)
Pushing the Pile: A CBS Sports NFL Podcast
CBS Sports, Football, NFL
4.2 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2018
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Pete Prisco is joined by Bleacher Report columnist Mike Freeman to discuss the wide-ranging potential impact of the NFL's new national anthem policy and what gambling on football means moving forward. The guys then dive into Russell Wilson's role with the Seahawks before analyzing who is the league's version of LeBron James.
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| 0:14.3 | Welcome to the Pick Six Podcast, No Will Brinson this week. He's in the Cayman Islands, but he's not taking enough time to get away from Twitter because he tweets too much on vacation which he's a moron but I know another guy who |
| 0:17.8 | would tweet on vacation because he tweets all the time he's non-stop he wakes up |
| 0:21.2 | tweeting he goes to bed tweeting he's a tweet a hollick and he's my buddy Mike Freeman from the Bleacher Report. What's up Mike? |
| 0:28.0 | Well, I've got a tweet to keep you in check. |
| 0:32.0 | Keep me in check. nobody can keep me in check. |
| 0:34.0 | All your stupid opinions. |
| 0:36.0 | Don't even start already. |
| 0:37.0 | We're just getting into the podcast. |
| 0:39.0 | Can we be friendly for a second? |
| 0:41.0 | Oh, we're going to be friendly. |
| 0:42.0 | Oh, we're going to be friendly. We're not going to agree on anything, but we're going to be friendly we're going to be friendly we're not |
| 0:43.7 | going to agree on anything but we're going to be friendly I mean there's no doubt about |
| 0:46.9 | that I mean no are you good how are you everything good everything good in the |
| 0:51.2 | world of every man everything's good this is a crazy league we're following. The news never stops and |
| 0:57.6 | NFL keeps stepping on its you know what and making stupid decisions it's a crazy world man it's a crazy world |
| 1:07.3 | but you know the thing is they're doing things that just make it worse. |
| 1:16.8 | You know, I know we're gonna talk about a bunch of different topics, |
| 1:18.7 | but I mean, I don't understand why you have an anthem policy. I know you're scared of Trump, but why do you have an anthem policy when the whole issue you know this peat it was dying down. I know. There were like four or five guys that were protesting during the anthem. |
| 1:38.0 | It was gone. It wasn't an issue anymore. |
| 1:41.0 | So why, so when you do this, why would you do this and then you're just going to have people |
| 1:46.7 | paying attention to it now. Now when I go to a game every week, I'm going to be looking again to see who it is just doing this. And there's going to be guys in the this and there's going to be guys in the |
| 1:53.8 | tunnel and there's going to be guys protesting on the field and it's going to be guys |
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