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Grant & Danny break down Brendan Sorsby being eligible for the 2027 NFL Draft after the supplemental draft was cancelled.
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00:00A memo was sent out today to NFL teams letting them know that Brendan Sorsby will officially be available and
00:09eligible in the 2027 NFL draft, but not until then.
00:13Remember, originally, he said he was going to come out in the draft.
00:17The league said not so fast.
00:19Then he was going to be a part of the supplemental draft.
00:22The NFL said there would be no supplemental draft.
00:24He was going to sue the league, go after the NFL.
00:27Those charges are not going to he's not going to pursue that litigation.
00:31That's not happening.
00:32So now it sounds like he's going to take his league mandated year away from football and deal with it
00:40and basically have to find another place to go play, whether that's the CFL or the UFL or do something
00:46else.
00:46But he will be eligible for the NFL draft in 2027.
00:50This whole thing was so strange to me from the NFL's side of things.
00:56They just decided, you know what, we're just not going to do a supplemental draft.
00:59Now, I think they hid behind there was some that it was so late with the paperwork and everything's so
01:05murky.
01:05Oh, we can't possibly do it.
01:07It really felt like, well, this is the only applicant and we're trying to punish him somehow without punishing him.
01:14And so they did kind of a workaround and said, turns out there's no supplemental draft as your kid.
01:19Sorry about that.
01:20Bad luck to you.
01:21See you later on down the line.
01:22And now this is kind of the compromise that they're sort of working out to avoid legal questions.
01:28Yeah, I think they wanted to do anything they could to avoid him joining the league after his controversy without
01:35a real punishment.
01:36I mean, you're dodging essentially what would have been a collegiate suspension to come to the National Football League.
01:41I don't think they would have had any wherewithal or anything to fall back on to actually penalize him.
01:47So in theory, he could have been a starter in week one with this story hanging over him.
01:51It would have been a terrible look, horrible optics for the NFL.
01:54So I'm sure that they found out legally what they could do.
01:57And the best case was, what if we just didn't have the supplemental draft, which looked shady.
02:01And that's why he wanted to go after the NFL.
02:04But that's generally a bad idea.
02:05You're going to lose.
02:07So here we are.
02:08He is not going to be in the supplemental draft.
02:10There won't be one.
02:11And they have, I think, probably come to an agreement with his people behind the scenes, his agent or attorney
02:18or whatever.
02:19Like, look, there's going to be nothing, no hurdles, nothing thrown in front of you in 27.
02:24Let's let bygones be bygones.
02:25Let's let a year go by here.
02:27And then you will be draft eligible like any other player come next year.
02:30You just have to basically sit this one out.
02:33So now I wonder what he does.
02:34Is it the Canadian Football League?
02:36What a coup that would be for the UFL.
02:37I mean, if you're the D.C. Defenders or one of these teams, why wouldn't you?
02:41Wouldn't that be a massive national story if he's lighting up the UFL?
02:44This is my point.
02:45They should pounce on that.
02:47We've said this a number of times before about quarterbacks that had some kind of baggage or whatever you want
02:52to call it.
02:53Good, bad, justified or not.
02:54Otherwise, that's what you do.
02:56You bring the lightning rod.
02:58You bring attention to it.
02:58So now all of a sudden, the league is lucky to have you.
03:01You use them basically to get some football practice over here instead of throwing on a high school field with
03:05a couple of buddies.
03:06It makes perfect sense.
03:07I think it's exactly what should happen, by the way.
03:10There was a memo sent today to NFL teams.
03:12This is Adam Schefter reporting.
03:14Letting to know officially that Sorsby has decided not to pursue any litigation.
03:19Sorsby then put out a statement of his own.
03:21He said, there has been a lot of news about me out there, and I want to share this statement.
03:25To make sure things are clear, I accept 100% responsibility for my actions.
03:30I did not have control of my gambling problem, and it took getting caught for me to realize that.
03:36But it was truly the best thing that could have happened to me.
03:39Because of this, I have been able to get the help that I need and fully focus on my recovery.
03:44The news about the supplemental draft changes nothing about my recovery journey.
03:48I will continue to take it one day at a time, focusing on making myself better throughout this process and
03:53making sure to share what I have learned.
03:55And I will continue to learn with others going forward.
03:59He says, I'm fully committed to being the best version of myself that I can be while getting ready for
04:04the 2027 draft.
04:05God makes no mistakes, and I look forward to seeing the good that is to come from this.
04:11Look, this could end up being a blip on this kid's career eventually.
04:16There's always going to be people in life that once you screw up, they never like you, or they'll never
04:20let it go,
04:21or there's going to be some jerk that's trolling him in a stadium 10 years from now if he's a
04:25great quarterback,
04:26talking about whether he bet on the game or not.
04:28But if you actually try to apologize and take it on the chin that you screwed up, which this statement,
04:37I think, does that.
04:38Now, how we got here was circuitous, and he tried to cut some corners and didn't really seem to want
04:43to go to his room to serve his timeout.
04:45But if he sits out a year, you're not playing college football, you're not playing in the NFL,
04:49even if it's just because it's mandated and you weren't able to, rather than you just trying to do what
04:54was right and say,
04:55I don't deserve to play football.
04:56Now, you've served the time as far as I'm concerned.
04:59This will ruffle feathers, I'm sure, but, you know, when Michael Vick had the horrendous, life-turning endeavor of, you
05:07know,
05:07getting busted for the awful things he was involved with in that dogfighting ring,
05:12just as bad and horrendous a thing as you could do short of, like, killing people, right?
05:17He went to prison.
05:18Like, he served time.
05:19And I remember at the time, my feeling was, as a younger person, I was like,
05:23did he go to jail?
05:24Did he get in trouble?
05:25Has he done the mea culpa?
05:27Has he said I'm sorry?
05:28Has he, you know, is still working to help the opposite happen as he's going and educating people on not
05:34doing this?
05:35Like, what should happen here?
05:36He should never get to live again.
05:38He shouldn't get to be a free person again.
05:40He shouldn't get to play in the NFL again.
05:42So I'm a second-chance guy.
05:44I always have been, and I will be with Soresby.
05:47It also sounds like he's claiming this was not that I was just a dumb college kid in my dorm
05:51making some bets.
05:53He feels like he got heavily addicted and really fell into, not unlike alcoholism or anything else,
05:58a true addiction that took his life over.
06:00Indeed.
06:00Yeah, I have never liked the punishment structure.
06:04We have that in our society.
06:06We have tiers for it.
06:06We all know that jaywalking is not as bad as, like, armed robbery, for example.
06:10And there's punishment that's according.
06:12And so it's worse to do, to put a parlay in than it is to, like, assault somebody via NFL
06:18rules.
06:18So I've never liked that part of things, the way that their tier discipline kind of goes, where they're way
06:23harsher on minor things than they are on some major things.
06:25But that's a digression.
06:27So I'm not necessarily a second-chances guy or otherwise.
06:30But the thing that I do care about, I mean, I always call it my Andy Pettit corollary.
06:34Remember, when everything's swirling around the Mitchell report, everything's swirling around, you know, the leak, this guy did steroids, this
06:39guy didn't.
06:40Andy Pettit was like, yep, I did it, my bad.
06:42Standing ovation, beloved, afterthought.
06:44No one cared anymore.
06:45But everybody that put a finger, you know, in the face of Congress, read my lips, I never did, I
06:50never did, everybody thinks of you as a joke.
06:53And when you denied it for all those kind of years, it affects things, right?
06:56We don't mind you getting caught.
07:00It's when you yell at us and lie to us and get all kind of pissed off that we can't
07:05forgive it.
07:05And I think that's kind of the general way to do it.
07:07Now, some people never forgive certain things, and that's totally fine, that's your prerogative.
07:10But in general, we move on pretty quickly as a society when someone goes, yep, that's my bad.
07:15When you kind of play the victim and accuse people of things and get all defined kind of back to
07:21your corner, we kind of keep hammering you a little bit.
07:24Again, as a society, all you got to do is, you know what, I own that one, that's my bad.
07:28And we tend to forgive.
07:29I'm fascinated to see where he gets drafted.
07:31I would imagine it would be mid-rounds.
07:32At this point, I'm guessing it might even be like the fourth or fifth round, whereas he would have been
07:36a first-round pick.
07:37But what if he goes and he lights it up in the CFL or the UFL as like an elite
07:42season?
07:42I bet you would, yeah.
07:42I'm sure he will.
07:43But then, you know, a year from now, the momentum is more positive.
07:46And like anything in life, I'm not saying this is even right all the time, but you just wait and
07:52people are less passionate to hate you and don't care about the bad thing that you did.
07:57I'm curious to see where this lands for him in the draft a year from now.
08:01When I went to Adam Schefter's account to get the statement that he had posted that I just read from
08:06Soresby,
08:06I saw that he narrated and wrote a piece about the pending wedding that's coming up in days ahead for
08:12Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey called Love Story.
08:15Do you know that this aired where he did this like narrated Jeremy Schaap piece about their wedding?
08:19No.
08:20I have no idea.
08:20This could be good for your Adam Schefter character that you do.
08:23Darius, play a clip of this.
08:27Each year we go from football season.
08:30The Seahawks win Super Bowl XVI.
08:33To the offseason.
08:35The Kansas City Chiefs selects Monsor Delane.
08:38To wedding season.
08:40Only this year's wedding season includes a marriage of pop culture and pigskin.
08:45Singer and scorer.
08:46A beauty.
08:48And on the football field, a beast.
08:51Kelsey over the shoulder.
08:52He's got the catch.
08:54He's got the touchdown.
08:56Taylor Swift is about to marry Travis Kelsey in one of the most anticipated and celebrated weddings.
09:02Pause this real quick there.
09:03How wacky is this?
09:05He's like no selling it.
09:07He's kayfabing it.
09:08I think he's being serious.
09:09I can't really tell.
09:11It's actually hilarious.
09:11And my favorite thing is that he posted it on his account with like nothing.
09:15It just said love story.
09:17And it's just going to be a bunch of angry football fans that are furious that he's talking about Taylor
09:20Swift and Travis Kelsey.
09:21It's pretty embarrassing.
09:23They need to get a job.
09:24But it's just so funny to me.
09:25All right.
09:25Keep going.
09:26The world has seen.
09:27There have been big weddings before.
09:29Pause it again.
09:29One of the best love stories the world has seen.
09:32That's a comment.
09:33Is it though?
09:33Go ahead.
09:35Prince Diana and Prince Charles.
09:37Kate Middleton and Prince William.
09:39And some of the most storied weddings.
09:41Have merged entertainment and sports.
09:44Starting back in January 1954.
09:47When Marilyn Monroe married Joe DiMaggio.
09:50There were other notable unions over the years.
09:54Victoria and David.
09:56Georgina and Cristiano.
09:58Giselle and Tom.
09:59Sierra and Russell.
10:01And even last summer.
10:03Haley and Josh.
10:04Pause this real quick.
10:05But Swift.
10:06This is actually a produced, written vignette on marriage.
10:16By Adam Schefter.
10:18He referenced it.
10:19Diana and Charles.
10:20I would look up those details before you start citing them, Big Cat.
10:24I might do a quick Google search or watch The Crown.
10:27I don't know that all of these marriages ended well.
10:29Yeah.
10:30That one was fairly rocky.
10:33Tom and Giselle, not so much.
10:35All right.
10:35Keep going.
10:36Josh.
10:37But Swift is one of the world's biggest stars.
10:40Kelsey is one of the most charismatic players in this country's most popular sport.
10:45Travis Kelsey's had a lot of big catches in his career.
10:49This would be the biggest.
10:50And now they are about to take their own vows.
10:54This is what their fans have waited for since the couple started dating in 2023 when she showed
11:01up in a box at Arrowhead Stadium, the biggest star in a stadium that included Kelsey and Patrick
11:07Mahomes.
11:11From there, their love story grew along with the fascination that people had with them.
11:16Their relationship involved a Super Bowl ring and the Chiefs Kingdom champions of Super
11:23Bowl 58, an antique engagement ring.
11:26Oh, you know, I was on top of the world after the Super Bowl.
11:29And right now, even more on top of the world.
11:31And now they get ready to ring in their own new partnership.
11:35The wedding of the year, maybe the decade, maybe the century is upon us and right around
11:41this country's 250th birthday.
11:44This will be one of the defining celebrity events of this, or really any, era.
11:51It will be peak wedding season before it's time to get back to football season.
12:00I think I love it.
12:02Like, I don't know what, is it funny?
12:04Is it supposed to be funny?
12:05I've reached my final form.
12:07It's one without shame.
12:09There's no embarrassment left.
12:11Left, I'm just narrating this drivel, this dreck, this nonsense.
12:15America's 250 years old.
12:17It's the same.
12:19Oh my God.
12:21How far we have fallen.
12:23But don't you think he's being funny?
12:25No.
12:26Doesn't he know that that was funny?
12:27No.
12:28You think he was doing an actual story?
12:29I think he doesn't know where he is anymore.
12:32This is the guy that used to break news through incredible reporting and diligence and doggedness.
12:39Now he's a $9 million a year text receiver.
12:42And he's just a water-carrying hump for whatever the league wants or whatever some agent wants to get out.
12:49This is a massive thing.
12:50No, it's not, quite frankly.
12:52On E it is.
12:53But that's not your beat, dude.
12:56Do you know what I mean?
12:57What are you talking about?
12:58I just kept waiting for anything that was notable or reporting being done.
13:03It was just like an 8th grade project could have done that.
13:06Literally.
13:07They could have written and produced and done that story.
13:09My nephew did a PowerPoint.
13:11And that's the quality of it.
13:12Basically, I'll sum up that two minutes and 48 seconds.
13:15They fell in love and they're getting married.
13:16They're getting married.
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