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Evan & Tiki

Roger Goodell’s Most Awkward Press Conference Moments

Evan & Tiki

Audacy

Sports

4.2988 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2026

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

After a quiet Friday news dump, the focus turns to the Steve Tisch connection to the Epstein emails and how the NFL chose to handle it. The crew plays a game predicting how many times Roger Goodell would actually be asked about the situation, then listens back as the commissioner faces three pointed questions at the podium. From the league’s vague preemptive statement to Goodell’s careful non answers, they break down what was said, what wasn’t, and what an NFL “investigation” even means in this context. The conversation expands to personal conduct standards, how far the league should go with owners, and whether this opens a much bigger can of worms. Along the way, they also react to other Goodell topics from the podium, including the Rooney Rule, officiating, tanking, and the Super Bowl halftime show.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What was at least on our minds was the Steve Tish situation.

0:03.8

So yesterday we talked a lot about Steve Tish's connection to the Epstein emails that were released over the weekend, then a Friday news dump.

0:11.2

And so we played a quick game guessing how many questions the media would ask Roger Goodell about Steve Tish.

0:20.5

Here's how we set the game up yesterday.

0:22.9

And let's play a little game.

0:24.1

How many questions are asked about this situation?

0:28.7

The Epstein files and how it relates to NFL owners.

0:32.0

How many questions?

0:33.4

Here's what me and Tiki had to say about it.

0:35.5

I say two.

0:36.8

It's going to be two and done.

0:40.3

I'd say minimum two.

0:42.2

Minimum two.

0:43.4

Minimum two.

0:44.9

This game was so much fun that off air in our shared office, I asked Craig about it.

0:51.3

And I don't even think he realized he then brought it on the air himself and played the same game with Big Mac. And I'm honored by that. So here's what they said. Over under for you. How many questions about Steve Tisch and the Epstein list? I don't think a lot. Yeah. I'm going to set the over under at three and a half. Yeah, I was just going to say four. Four. By the other, what I love about Craig, in his voice, you can hear, it's like, oh, I got this great idea. Meanwhile, I just did it with him like an hour ago off air. He's done realizing that it wasn't original. No, that's okay. That's totally fine. So my understanding is I said two. You said minimum two. Big Mac said four and Sean didn't want to touch it I said one actually you didn't pull it Oh I didn't pull it my bad I guess I didn't hear that And real quickly I forget exactly how many got asked But just to prep I have the answer We're gonna play all of them by the way But it should be said Before he took the podium, he had the NFL issue a statement

1:45.4

about this as well. They did. They released a very weak statement about this, which, you know what,

1:49.9

I guess I should read before we get to the questions. It kind of said, I almost took it as we're not

1:54.5

going to ask about this. Yeah. Like, don't ask us about this. Here's the statement. The NFL

1:59.5

statement, and it was quick, was the league is aware of the reports and Steve's response, our office will look into the matter to understand the facts. So a very, very quick statement. But no, that did not stop the media. And I want to give major credit to the three, because that is the answer. There were three questions about it. The first one is Judy Batista, who's an excellent reporter.

2:19.2

So, Judy, kudos to you because you stood up.

2:21.8

You didn't waste any time.

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