Tampering, Tom Brady, and the NFL’s Miami Dolphins Investigation

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🗓️ 3 August 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Another NFL punishment has been doled out just a day after QB Deshaun Watson’s suspension: the Miami Dolphins were stripped of two draft picks, their owner Stephen Ross was suspended until October, and fined $1.5 million. The discipline came as a result of the league investigators finding tampering violations of “unprecedented scope and severity.” The allegations first surfaced from former head coach Brian Flores’ lawsuit against the NFL and the Dolphins, which suggested the team tampered with an unnamed QB, later revealed to be Tom Brady. The league also found that Dolphins improperly contacted former Saints head coach Sean Payton about joining the team. Jeff Darlington explains the origins of the investigation, what it means for the Dolphins, and what happens next. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, more breaking news coming into sports and what's already been a very active
0:07.1	day.
0:08.1	We go back to the NFL for this one.
0:09.2	The Miami Dolphins will lose a first round draft pick in 2023.
0:13.1	After the NFL announced discipline following investigations into tampering and tanking allegations.
0:19.8	The NFL found that the dolphins violated the anti-tampering policy in discussions with
0:24.6	Tom Brady on two occasions and also impermissible communications with the agents for then Zane's
0:30.8	head coach Sean Payt.
0:35.2	Roughly 24 hours after Dishon Watson's suspension was announced, the NFL decided to release
0:40.8	the results of another explosive investigation.
0:44.6	This one involving the greatest quarterback of all time and the Miami Dolphins and their
0:50.1	billionaire owner Stephen Ross and their former head coach Brian Flores, the man who is
0:55.5	suing the dolphins and two other teams and also the NFL itself.
1:01.4	There's also tampering and alleged tanking and lost draft picks and a future hall of
1:06.1	them coach and as we will ultimately explain.
1:09.3	Dishon Watson himself.
1:11.9	So today, South Florida's own Jeff Darlington breaks down a story he has been following
1:16.2	longer than anyone else we know, the story of how Tom Brady almost became a dolphin and
1:23.8	so much more.
1:26.8	I'm Pablo Torre, it is Wednesday, August 3rd.
1:31.0	This is ESPN Daily.
1:35.2	Jeff Darlington, I don't know if you were expecting a second straight day of long-awaited bombshell
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