You're listening to Draft Kings Network. Hey there, Moores and Girls, welcome to another edition of The Business of Sports with Andrew Brand.

I'm your host.

The one and only Andrew Brand, or actually, there are probably more of Andrew Brands out there,

but I'm the one that does the business of sports podcast, business of sports commentary,

sports law professor, NIL consultant, journalist for the Sunday 7 newsletter for Sports Illustrated.com. You find me on various

podcasts, radio shows, TV shows, etc. But what I do here is give you a whip around the world

of the business of sports, a lot of NFL, but not all NFL, and my role in college sports

giving you some insights you don't get from other people

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produced by Jack Connell.

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Merry Christmas, happy Hanukkah,

happy holidays to everyone. Let's get into it. We start in the NFL with some quarterbacks, and the most recent news on the quarterback front is that of Tua. I'm not going to butcher his last

name. You know who he is, the erstwhile quarterback of the Miami Dolphua. I'm not going to butcher his last name. You know who he is?

The erstwhile quarterback of the Miami Dolphins. I'll just start it this way.

It was July 30th, 2024. So what is that? About 16, 17 months ago, where we're into training camp, and both Jordan Love with the Packers and Tua with the

dolphins are going through sort of semi hold-ins where it's time potentially for redo of their

contracts and they are kind of angling for that to happen. If you remember, there was this sense that, yeah,

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