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PFT Live with Mike Florio

PFT PM: Inside NFL encouraging collusion with contracts

PFT Live with Mike Florio

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4.41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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0:00.0

Wednesday, June 24 edition of BFT PM. As I said yesterday, today could be interesting.

0:17.8

And I really wasn't sure how what I knew would be coming to light

0:24.1

would be received. I'm encouraged so far by the reaction and the response to the fact that

0:33.1

Pablo Tori and I working together, pushing each other, managed to get our hands.

0:38.3

And he did it.

0:39.3

He got it.

0:40.5

Kudos to him.

0:41.9

We had a friendly competition. And he won the 61-page ruling dated January 15, 2025 in the collusion case that the NFL won, but the NFL lost, because the NFL was caught

0:59.8

with its hand at the bottom with a cookie jar as it relates to collusion.

1:06.5

I'm not sure how the NFL managed to win.

1:09.8

I've got some theories, and I'll discuss them over the course of the next half hour or so.

1:13.5

As I continue the discussion that Pablo and I had on the latest episode of Pablo Tori finds out,

1:21.4

and I encourage you to watch all of that.

1:23.2

This is just extra stuff, and this is just me, sort of stream of consciousness,

1:28.3

but also with some loose understanding of what it is I plan to get to.

1:32.7

And it really is astounding that both the union and the league were able to keep the ruling

1:42.2

under wraps for more than five months. It's unbelievable. A 61-page ruling

1:48.1

that was the caper to months of litigation that occurred within the confines of collective bargaining

1:55.5

agreement, collusion claims are resolved by a system arbitrator. Christopher Droney is the arbitrator who ultimately

2:03.0

put his name at the bottom of that 61 page rolling. Both sides were able to stick it in the vault

2:08.7

and leave it there. Unbelievable. And even though I will give Pablo full credit for being the one to get it.

2:19.3

I guarantee you he wouldn't have even tried if I hadn't been banging the drum.

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