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.

Hey there, boys and girls. Welcome to another edition of the Business of Sports with Andrew Brandt.

This podcast is presented by betonline.ag. It's your online sportsbook experts. They're the exclusive partners. You know, podcast one sportsnet. You can use promo code podcast one. You receive a 50% sign-up bonus. That's betonline.ag. I want to start you out with a rant. This is a Brant's Rants Edition. End of year edition

of the business of sports. A couple rants for you. The major one's going to be about Nick Foles

and the Philadelphia Eagles. What happens going forward to this magical player who changes the game,

it seems, every time this year, past couple years. We'll talk a lot about Nick Foles. The first

rant of the week,

as we look towards the end of the NFL season, I thought I'd take you behind the curtain on

what really happens with these teams, especially or exclusively, the ones that are not making

the playoffs. Obviously, there'll be plenty of time to talk about the playoffs, talk about what happens,

the road to the Super Bowl, the excitement of moving towards that date.

But really now we're talking about the 20 teams.

I sit here on a Wednesday the day after Christmas in literally five days.

It's over.

And the finality of it is really something I always never, you can't really express how final it seems when that happens.

So what's happening is as of Sunday, now there are only a few teams sort of alive for the playoffs that won't make it.

Certainly in the NFC, it's only either Minnesota or Philadelphia that won't make it pretty much everyone else.

You know you're going on vacation on Sunday night. As for the AFC, there are a couple more teams involved.

But again, 20 teams are done on Sunday, December 30th, not to return to their teams until April with the off-season workout program.

Listen, again, the CBA is very clear on this.

It was a priority in CBA negotiations for the union to mandate, and I repeat, mandate time away from the facility,

time away from coaches, time away from trainers, time away from strength facility, time away from coaches, time away from trainers,

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