00:00I want to ask you about Brandon Soresby here.
00:03Do you believe Brandon Soresby should be able to play again?
00:07I mean, he was a young kid, made some mistakes.
00:10You know, you don't know what the truth is, but from what I've read,
00:13he was placing, he placed a lot of wagers.
00:15So obviously he has a problem with betting and he needs to get help for that.
00:19But his average wager was nine or 10 bucks a bet.
00:22So the integrity of the game was never in jeopardy.
00:25You know, you're not going to convince 11 people on offense to fix a game for nine or 10 bucks.
00:31I mean, they're splitting 80 cents a piece.
00:32So I don't think the integrity was ever in jeopardy, but it does open up a can of worms
00:37if you do let him play because he does have an issue.
00:40And if he is in the NFL, maybe he starts making some, you know, some bigger wages.
00:43But I don't think that's, I don't think that would happen.
00:46I'm all about redemption.
00:48If he gets the help he needs, because I do think he has a problem with betting.
00:53Yeah, I think he should play in the NFL as long as, you know,
00:55it gets his life straightened out.
00:56But again, I don't think the integrity of the game was ever in jeopardy.
00:59I don't even think he was playing on the team when he was placing those wagers.
01:04So, you know, it's a slippery slope.
01:06Do you have to set an example?
01:08Yeah.
01:08But you also got to give people second chances.
01:11And I think he deserves a second chance.
01:14Here's my place in this.
01:16Hasn't the landscape changed, in your opinion, than what it was, say, 20 years ago?
01:20You know, when you've got FanDuel, you've got DraftKings, you've got an NFL team now that's in Las Vegas,
01:27you've got the national championship game that's going to be played in Las Vegas this coming season.
01:33You know, it's one thing to go, well, you can't gamble on the sport.
01:36Well, the NFL is now entrenched in gambling.
01:39Part of their revenue now, the making these franchises what they're worth today, is being involved with gambling.
01:46So, you know, you just can't say, I don't want my player to gamble anymore because the league gambles.
01:52So hasn't that landscape changed a little bit here?
01:55And we have to maybe open up our eyes a little more to let athletes gamble more.
02:00Do you believe athletes should be able to gamble?
02:03I mean, do as I say, not as I do.
02:05Is that what the NFL is telling everybody?
02:08They're in bed with all these, you know, sports books.
02:11Listen, I got no problem if an athlete wants to bet on his team or on himself.
02:15I mean, you know, boxers do it all the time.
02:18It's legal.
02:18You know, Mayweather used to bet on himself all the time.
02:20If you think you're the better team and if it gives you, you know, a slight edge to bet on
02:28yourself
02:28and you go out there and you perform even better, there's nothing wrong with that.
02:32It's just hard to monitor.
02:34And with these prop bets, there's so many different prop bets.
02:37But again, if you want to bet on yourself, I don't think there's a problem there.
02:40The issue comes when, you know, some players start betting against themselves or, you know,
02:44the Malik Beasley's of this world when they're out there fixing games and fixing prop bets.
02:49And it's a slippery slope.
02:51But yeah, you're going to have to, the landscape is changing.
02:54And if the NFL is in bed with, you know, sports books and they got, you know, half sheets
02:58with all these sports books, I mean, if an athlete wants to bet on, you know, if an NFL athlete
03:02wants to bet on baseball, what's wrong with that?
03:04Or if he wants to bet on boxing or if he wants to, you know, bet on anything else, bet
03:08on your
03:08own sport.
03:09There's going to have to be a lot of parameters set up, a lot of, you know, new rules and
03:12regulations.
03:13And that gets a little tricky.
03:15But again, if you're betting on yourself, I don't find nothing wrong with that.
03:18See, to me, I think it comes down to like insider trading that they're more concerned about.
03:25Because if I'm sitting in a locker room and I know that there's an injury to a player
03:30and I'm able to put a bet down and go, Hey, I'm going to put a hundred dollars down because,
03:35you know, Josh Allen's not playing this week, or I'm going to put a thousand dollars down
03:39that Josh Allen's not playing.
03:41I think, again, I think that's what they're more concerned about, right?
03:44Is the fact that they have inside knowledge of the sport, that is their biggest concern.
03:50It's not really about the gambling itself.
03:52It's more that they have the information, kind of like being a stockbroker.
03:56Yeah.
03:57Well, the politicians do it all the time.
03:58They don't get in trouble for it, right?
03:59That's right.
04:01Right.
04:01Right.
04:02But, you know, but these days there's so many sports doctors on the internet and they
04:07identify injuries as they happen.
04:10And they'll tell you, this guy, you know, there's a 70% chance he's not playing this
04:14week or a 60% chance or 50-50.
04:16And usually they're spot on.
04:19So I don't even think that's much of an issue anymore when it comes to injuries, because
04:25everything's so out in the open these days.
04:26And there's so many experts, you know, doctors out there that are breaking down the injuries
04:31as they happen live on TV.
04:33And they're giving you the odds of whether he's going to play the following week or not.
04:35And you'll see the odds move right then and there.
04:38So it's not like the old days.
04:40Information is best and it's moving fast.
04:42So.
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