Why the Calvin Ridley Suspension Was Fair and Necessary, Plus Danny Kanell on NFL Draft QB Prospects
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
The Ringer
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🗓️ 8 March 2022
⏱️ 79 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Today's pod you knew it. I've got just a blow torch to the Ridley takes on the |
| 0:16.0 | spend of wide receiver for gambling. We're going to talk with that story and the quarterback |
| 0:19.7 | class and just some other stuff at Danny Canal catching up with the old radio partner. |
| 0:22.9 | We got about 40 seconds an hour Rogers and life advice. |
| 0:27.1 | We got to talk Calvin Ridley. We have to talk Calvin Ridley. Biggest story of the news |
| 0:30.6 | yesterday NFL receiver Ridley with the Atlanta Falcons played five games from last year. |
| 0:34.6 | I remember took some time away wanted to work on his mental health. So he was on the |
| 0:38.6 | non football injury list and during that time in November he bet some parlays on a map. |
| 0:43.9 | He had a three teamer in there five teamer eight teamer. He said he lost only 1500 bucks. |
| 0:49.5 | This was tracked because he put his own information into the app and then the NFL works with |
| 0:53.7 | different places to kind of just look over this stuff and they were like, hey, this player, |
| 0:58.0 | active player, he's betting on NFL games and you get banned for a year. You can't do it. |
| 1:03.3 | All right. It sounds really simple and there are very few things I think in life that we should |
| 1:07.2 | all be able to agree on, but this should be one of them. If you're an active player in your league, |
| 1:12.2 | you can't bet on those games. You just can't. I mean, this is a reason why we talk about Pete |
| 1:16.0 | Rose having a lifetime ban now for decades. Okay. You cannot invite speculation into the legitimacy |
| 1:21.4 | of your product if the outcomes are the product. I think that's pretty clear, but I knew it. |
| 1:28.1 | I knew it. I'm like, okay. Let's see who's got what? Let's see them all. Let's see who has the |
| 1:35.8 | worst takes on really being suspended a year. My Floreo, Emmanuel Acho parlays smashed. I was like, |
| 1:43.9 | oh, here we go. All right. Floreo was arguing with Albert Breer and essentially Floreo had said, |
| 1:49.5 | look, the league is earning millions through the peddling a consumer product that it won't let |
| 1:54.2 | it players consume. It's a tad F'd up. No, it isn't. No, it isn't. And by the way, the league made, |
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