The State of the (NFL) Union, with Mike Florio
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Pablo Torre
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🗓️ 24 March 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Maximum scandal, maximum secrecy. Now that the NFLPA's game of thrones has sent football back to the future, and new executive director J.C. Tretter back to office, Pro Football Talk's Mike Florio says Roger Goodell and the bean-counters at the league office are ready to pounce on an 18-game regular season — and football every night of the week.
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Previously on PTFO:
• Part I: The NFL's Secret Collusion Case, Revealed
• Part II: We Sparked an NFL Union Crisis. Here's the Sequel.
• Part III: We Followed the Money in the NFL Union Scandal. So Did the FBI.
• Part IV: We Investigated the Hollywood Cover-Up the NFLPA Ignored
• Part V: The Silenced Top Cop and the Cabal of "Strip-Club Dreams"
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out, presented by eBay Live. I am Pablo Torre, and today we're going to find out what this sound is. |
| 0:08.1 | The same old shit, like what lands into a car that has skidded into a manure truck. |
| 0:16.3 | Right after this ad. |
| 0:24.3 | Five minutes became 10. |
| 0:25.9 | Sorry, Monday morning. |
| 0:27.5 | How many hundreds of blog posts did you just publish in the time it took for you to delay? |
| 0:32.8 | No, just one. |
| 0:34.0 | I had to eat breakfast. |
| 0:35.4 | I had to have a cup of coffee. |
| 0:40.6 | I had to pop a Zinn. And then I realized I had to eat breakfast i had to have a cup of coffee i had to pop his in and then i realized i had to pee so i would have been here sooner but for the fact that i needed to empty the bladder |
| 0:45.8 | after two hours of the show this morning and i forgot that i had to go mike florio it's time to empty |
| 0:51.7 | our bladder that is what we're also doing here on this show. |
| 0:54.6 | Thanks for doing this. |
| 0:55.8 | It's been too long since the audience has been demanding. |
| 0:59.1 | They've been wondering. |
| 1:00.0 | They've been saying, how is it that you're back in the rabbit hole in Florio, the person who drew you into the rabbit hole of the NFLPA, has not yet been dragged back down into it? |
| 1:10.8 | But it's not just emptying the bladder |
| 1:12.2 | that I want to do with you, in fact, here today, Mike. I also need to unpack some of the |
| 1:17.2 | shi-storm that's been happening with the NFLPA. And we'll get to how the NFL, how the league itself |
| 1:22.9 | feels about all of the things we've been reporting, all of the scandal that continues to emerge from the players union. |
| 1:30.1 | But in terms of who's running the union now, |
| 1:33.2 | as of last week's election for executive director, |
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