NFL owners meet the media: Giants are a mess! Jets are a mess! Jags are a mess!; MAJOR fight for control of Padres! (Episode 1193)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Baseball, Sports, Business

4.5 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘omniscient’ as in knowing everything as in NFL owners as in firing as in hiring as in deciding not to make any moves. Let’s go through some of the moves made yesterday during NFL Black Monday. Robert Kraft followed up his statement on firing Jerod Mayo with another statement. John Mara spoke. Shad Khan spoke. (18:00) Jets owner Woody Johnson had to come out and defend his son from reports of his involvement in the Jets. What a mess that organization is. (32:13) Review: Wicked. (36:15) There’s a huge fight brewing for control of the San Diego Padres right now. The widow of Peter Seidler is now suing his brothers over control of the team. Oh boy. (45:12) We have an update on the Rays again! The team came out and says it wants the Trop to be fixed now! Huh!? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:52.3	That's the nothing personal word of the day for Tuesday, January 7, 2025.
1:00.0	Amnient. I'm not omniscient. It's when you've got Godlike qualities and you know all. It's a good word to have. It's a good word. It's like an SAT word when someone around you
1:06.5	is maybe a little egomaniacal or someone around you thinks they know everything. I don't mean like
1:12.4	Nostradamus prediction type. I mean like all knowing. Owners are often thought of as omniscient,
1:20.6	only in their own living rooms. The thing about being omniscient is that it doesn't matter if anyone else thinks you are.
1:30.5	It only matters that you think you are.
1:33.9	And NFL owners have been really super good about exhibiting those qualities, especially as another failed season comes to an end,
1:44.5	and they all try to figure out what buttons need to be pressed
1:48.8	in order to change the fortunes of their franchise.
1:55.7	Keep in mind, one button that can't be pressed is the,
1:59.6	I'm not omniscient button. You don't have owners who give up power.
2:05.7	You don't have owners who take a step back who say, I'm going to run things differently now.
2:11.9	We talked yesterday about how Jerry Jones operates, naming himself the GM,
2:17.6	the ultimate in omniscient.
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