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We're going to talk to Burr-Pere from MMQB.

That's coming up at, let's say, 720.

There is rumors Keenan Singleton, who is, what is Keenan Singleton here?

He is, well, let's go to Eric Winston.

He is the president and Cincinnati Bengals.

He's the union president, and he is a tackle for the Cincinnati Bengals.

And coming up in 2021, they're saying it's an absolute certainty that the players are going

to hold out.

And they've told players to start stockpiling money while I was listening to Flynn talking

yesterday.

And he was a player.

And he said that there's no way that the players union can win.

Oh, you can't. I mean, how many of these guys are? I mean, what percentage of NFL players do you think have the kind of

money where they would be able to miss out on a year's worth of salary? Yeah, like say in the example was,

say you're making $2 million a year and your alignment and your career is probably

going to go five years. If you give up that salary, I mean, that's a good chunk of your income.

So, you know, not everyone is Matt Ryan. They can go out and take the rest of their careers

off. A lot of these guys, I mean, if your highest earning potential is over the course of five years and they take one of those years away, you're screwed. You're also, some people are teetering on making a team or not. And you might be at the end of that too, right? You know, Fred, where, where this is your last shot. And if you have to give up that one shot to make, you know, as you said, $2 million, you're not going to sit there and hold out. On top of that, Fred, how many times have we heard that before? Right. This is the time that everyone's going to hold out. It never happens. Honestly, I don't care. And I don't think you guys, I don't think the guys in the locker room care are this thing's going to be around in 20 years because none of us are going to be playing because they're talking about the NFL not being a league in 20 or 30 years. No, yeah. And these players are saying, so what? Like, what do I care? I'm not going to be playing in 20 years, so do whatever you have to do. All it matters is right now and me wanting to make money.

Yeah.

So, I mean, obviously if they strike, nothing's going to happen.

And they said so to Albert Breyer, who got a quote, saying a lockout is almost a virtual certainty.

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