Contracts, salary caps. Why do our favorite teams make some of the moves they do?

It's usually the money.

It's time for the Business of Sports with Andrew Brandt.

Hello, boys and girls, and welcome to another edition of The Business of Sports with Andrew Brandt.

On this chilly, frigid time in the East Coast.

I was away in Florida for a while over the break, but back.

And, yeah, one more person asks me or tells me, you must be used to this weather.

You just live in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

I'm going to punch them.

You never get used to this weather.

People out there are being used to it.

But, yeah, it's kind of an upper Midwest freeze going on now on the East Coast. So as I sit here with my fire,

with my wine, grading exams from last semester at Villanova Law, I'll tell you a couple interesting

answers already. I've seen on that one in a minute.

I thought I'd give you some rants about some big issues going on, sort of at the end of the season, start of the postseason.

NFL business issues abound as always. Three things I'll get to right here. The Packers, of course, the team I have so much history with and so much knowledge of making some changes.

And my insights on that, especially the removal of Ted Thompson from that post and what's next.

They don't get to the Patriots, the bombshell story from ESPN, about potential rift between the triumvirate in New England craft, Brady and Belichick, give you my

thoughts there. And of course, the big news of John Gruden, who I worked with at ESPN and Noel,

moving to Oakland, to take over that franchise, or at least for two years before moving to Las Vegas and the billion-dollar stadium that's

being built for the Raiders in Vegas. My thoughts there. So we'll start on this business of

sports, Brant's rants on this frigid day on the East Coast as the sunsets. We'll start with

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