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Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcast

RTAB: Ross Tucker

Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcast

NFL Business

Sports News, News

4.8607 Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Andrew turns the tables and interviews Ross on this week's Business Of Sports podcast. They look back on the 2018 NFL regular season and discuss the television ratings increase, rookie quarterbacks, Tom Brady's compensation, the Steelers missing the playoffs, and Ross's picks for this weekend's wildcard games. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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

0:06.2

the money. It's time for the Business of Sports with Andrew Brandt. Welcome back, boys and

0:14.0

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0:19.2

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0:28.5

today at bedonline.ag. First thing, let's do a round of the week. And that involves much ado

0:35.3

about Antonio Brown.

0:41.6

A lot of things around him, the latest being that he didn't miss last week's game.

0:45.2

The final game, it turns out, for the Pittsburgh Steelers this season.

0:52.0

Due to injury, he missed it due to conduct or misconduct or throwing the ball at a teammate or getting upset.

0:56.2

Now there's all this noise around Antonio Brown. He's a, he's a cancer in the locker room. He's trouble. Ryan Clark v.SPN saying it's time for him to get out of

1:01.5

there. They're sub-tweeting, chatting, whatever, Instagramming back and forth. This has become a mess.

1:08.4

You know, we talked about Levian Bell with the Steelers for so long.

1:11.4

Now we're talking about Antonio Brown.

1:12.8

A little surprised because to me, Mike Tomlin seems like a taskmaster, seems stern, seems to an inspired discipline, but it doesn't seem to be happening.

1:22.5

So now there's talk about Antonio Brown.

1:24.6

Okay, this is where I come in with the rant.

1:26.5

He's not going anywhere.

1:28.3

I know. Yes, he's got to get rid of him and all that, but he's not going anywhere.

1:33.7

And part of it is his exhilarating play and his abilities, but the real thing to me is the

1:39.4

cap. This is a structured contract. The way the Steelers do these contracts, these huge bonuses, they bonus out the contract, and that's really the only guaranteed money, so all the money's in the first year in terms of guarantee, but it leaves huge dead money charges if somehow, some way, things go south with the player, and that's what appears to be happening,

2:06.4

so you can't do it. Here's the thing, and I tweeted this out, if Antonio Brown's on the team,

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