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Tom Curran’s Patriots Talk Podcast

The poison of DEFLATEGATE still lives in the NFL's system

Tom Curran’s Patriots Talk Podcast

NBC Sports Boston

Patriots Nation, News, Ja'lynn Polk, Football, Jerod Mayo, New England Patriots, Afc East, Afc, Mike Vrabel, Sports, Tom E. Curran, Sports News, Phil Perry, Nfl

4.5803 Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Tom Curran is joined by Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk and NBC Sports to discuss his new book, “Playmakers: How the NFL Really Works (and Doesn’t)”. Florio shares some previously unknown information about the league’s ‘Deflategate’ investigation as well as offering his thoughts on Brian Flores’ lawsuit against the NFL.   3:10- Florio shares new details on the origins of ‘Deflategate’, including the source of the infamous “11 of 12 footballs…” report 9:20- What ever happened to the data the NFL collected on football PSI levels during the 2015 season? 15:25- Grading Roger Goodell’s tenure as NFL commissioner 19:50- Florio shares his thoughts on the Brian Flores’ lawsuit and how he’d solve the issues with NFL ownership and governorship  Watch the full episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ujIwEPRMm6s

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0:00.0

Hey!

0:02.0

I'm out a bit of Terry!

0:06.0

This time, World Champion, and there ain't nothing you can do about it. Hey, what's up, everybody?

0:23.3

Welcome into Tom Carren's Patriots Talk podcast.

0:25.6

We've got a good one today.

0:26.9

Mike Florio from Pro Football Talk.

0:29.0

He joins us to talk about his findings on deflakeet.

0:33.5

Yeah, deflakeet.

0:35.2

It's in advance of his upcoming book, Playmakers.

0:38.7

Mike uncovered some really interesting details.

0:40.8

I think you're going to enjoy.

0:41.6

He also has some outstanding insights on some other things that are circling around the league right now, so enjoy that.

0:47.5

Also, I want you to catch us on Quick Slants later today.

0:50.7

We'll rehash that Rodney Harrison interview on Slants.

0:53.7

Also, as the week goes along,

0:55.8

we get some special guests. We're hoping on a Gerard Mayo, a K. Adams, so a quickslance reunion.

1:01.4

I think Julian Edelman's been on quick slants too. He is on the docket as well. So we're going to

1:06.2

keep pumping, pumping, pumping content. Enjoy the week. In comes our good friend, Mike Florio, from

1:13.7

Pro Football Talk. He's a good friend of mine. I don't know if I'm a good friend of his. I better

1:16.8

be. I mean, I do an awful lot of stuff for his stuff. How are you? That's a very loaded question.

1:22.3

What else do I have to say other than, yes, you are my very good friend. Please come to my house and give me COVID

1:29.1

now that you're at Radio Row with all the maskless morons. I'm just kidding. Will you stop? We all

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