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The Brian Flores Lawsuit Is Going to Trial. Here Is Why That Matters for the Entire NFL.

Brian Flores took the NFL to the Supreme Court. He won. And now — for the first time in league history — 31 NFL teams have to open their hiring files to a federal court. That process is called discovery. And it is the one word the NFL has spent years trying to avoid. Get up to $200 off Square hardware when you sign up at square.com/go/WINGO #squarepod #sponsored For over four years, the NFL did everything in its power to keep this case private. They argued it belonged in arbitration — handled internally, with Roger Goodell as the arbitrator. Courts disagreed. They appealed all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States. On May 26, 2026, the Supreme Court said no. The case is going to trial. Discovery is mandatory. There is no more stalling. This is not a small thing. The NFL's arbitration system has been the legal shield that kept internal disputes — discrimination claims, misconduct allegations, coaching decisions — out of public courtrooms for decades. That shield is now gone. What Flores exposed is that the league was essentially running its own private court, with the commissioner working for the owners serving as the sole judge. Multiple federal courts called it what it is: legally unconscionable. The details of what Flores alleges are extraordinary. He received a congratulatory text from Bill Belichick before his Giants interview — a text meant for Brian Daboll, confirming the hire was already done before Flores walked in the door. He claims Denver Broncos executives showed up to his interview an hour late and appeared hungover. And in Miami, he alleges Dolphins owner Stephen Ross offered him $100,000 per loss to deliberately tank for draft picks. That last allegation exists in a league that has since legalized gambling. The legal implications of that have changed considerably since 2022. Flores's legal team has now served subpoenas to 31 of the 32 NFL franchises and filed over 1,000 discovery requests. What they are looking for: internal hiring communications, Rooney Rule interview records, and any documentation that shows whether minority coaching candidates were ever given a genuine chance — or whether the interviews were, as Flores alleges, procedural theater. The Rooney Rule has been debated for years. A federal court is now going to see the actual evidence. The NFL has until June 5th to file a motion to dismiss. Based on where this case has already been — through multiple federal courts, the Second Circuit, and now the Supreme Court — that motion is unlikely to stop what is coming. Discovery is the next phase. And as anyone who followed the John Gruden situation knows, you never fully know what is in the files until someone has to show them. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Wyndham Clark Wins the CJ Cup — Plus the PGA Tour 2027 Schedule Is Taking Shape

GOLF LIVE returns with a look at where the PGA Tour season is headed next, from the schedule taking shape to the players raising the biggest questions right now. Get up to $200 off Square hardware when you sign up at square.com/go/WINGO #squarepod #sponsored Trey Wingo and Justin Ray break down what we know so far about the upcoming schedule, what they like, what still needs work, and how the structure of the season could affect players, fans, and the biggest events on the calendar. This week’s episode also looks back at the CJ Cup, where Wyndham Clark continued his strong run, Si Woo Kim let a closing opportunity slip away, and the question around Scottie Scheffler remains simple: is anything actually wrong, or are expectations just impossibly high? Then Trey and Justin turn to Jordan Spieth. Where is his game going, what still flashes, what still feels unstable, and what should we realistically expect from him as the season moves forward? This week’s episode: 1. Schedule Release So Far What works, what does not, and what the early schedule picture says about the direction of the PGA Tour. 2. CJ Cup Takeaways Wyndham Clark’s win, Si Woo Kim’s missed chance, and why the Scottie Scheffler concern might be overblown. 3. Where Is Jordan Spieth’s Game Going? A closer look at Spieth’s current form, his long-term outlook, and whether the next version of his game is coming into focus. 4. Questions Viewer questions and final thoughts from across the golf world. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Abdul Carter Said He and Jackson Dart Talked Like Men. Why Not Do That Before You Tweet?

Abdul Carter Said He and Jackson Dart Talked Like Men. Why Not Do That Before You Tweet? Get up to $200 off Square hardware when you sign up at square.com/go/WINGO #squarepod #sponsored By now you have probably seen it. Jackson Dart — the New York Giants starting quarterback — introduced President Trump at a fundraiser. His teammate Abdul Carter reposted the tweet with a comment that essentially said what are we doing here. The post went viral. 55 million views. Every NFL show in the country had something to say about it. And then Abdul Carter posted again. Said he and Jackson Dart talked like men. Said everyone could keep their narratives. Trey has one question. Why not do that before you hit send? This is not a political story. Trey is not here to tell you whether Jackson Dart was right to introduce the president or whether Abdul Carter was right to respond the way he did. That is not the conversation. The conversation is about what happens inside an NFL locker room — and what the rules actually are. Here is what most people covering this story do not know. There are only two things that actually tear apart an NFL locker room. Two. Everything else — different backgrounds, different beliefs, different politics, different religions, different ways of seeing the world — all of that gets worked out because it has to. You are trying to win football games together. You put the other stuff aside. The two things you do not touch are somebody else’s money and somebody else’s family. That is it. Those are the lines. Cross either one of those and you have a real problem that winning might not even be able to fix. Michael Strahan and Tiki Barber never fully patched things up after Tiki crossed the money line. Drew Brees and Malcolm Jenkins had to have a genuine come to Jesus moment after the kneeling comments went public. These things leave marks. Jackson Dart did not cross either line. He introduced the president at a fundraiser. That is his right. That is his business. In a locker room that stays exactly where it belongs — in the category of things that are not your business because it is not your money and not your family. But here is where it got complicated. It went public. And the moment it went public it stopped being Jackson Dart’s private business and became everyone’s business — including 55 million people on social media who all had a take. And now the Giants locker room — which has 53 guys with 53 different backgrounds and 53 different sets of beliefs — has to manage something that never needed to leave the building in the first place. Abdul Carter said they talked like men and squashed it. Good. That is the right outcome. But Trey’s point is simple — if you can talk like men after, you can talk like men before. One conversation before the tweet and none of this is a story. None of it. The 55 million views do not happen. The hot takes do not happen. The Giants do not have to spend any energy managing a situation that has nothing to do with winning football games. And winning is what matters. Trey has said it for 30 years covering this sport. Winning is the ultimate deodorant in an NFL locker room. You will put up with anything — any personality, any opinion, any difference — as long as the team is winning. The moment the winning stops every little thing that you looked the other way about starts to become a problem. The Giants need to win. If they win this goes away completely. If they lose it will come back. Jackson Dart is the quarterback of the New York Giants. That means every action he takes is going to be scrutinized by every one of his 52 teammates. Some of them will agree with him. Some of them will not. That is the job. With great power comes great responsibility. He appears to have handled the aftermath well. The lesson going forward is that the leader of an NFL locker room has to think about how every public action lands inside that building — not because he is not allowed to have his own life and his own beliefs — but because perception is reality in a locker room and his job is to keep 53 guys pointed in the same direction. Talk first. Tweet second. That is the lesson. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The NFL Is Chasing Tech Money. LIV Chased Saudi Money. The Cautionary Tale Is the Same.

The NFL Is Chasing Tech Money. LIV Chased Saudi Money. The Cautionary Tale Is the Same. Get up to $200 off Square hardware when you sign up at square.com/go/WINGO #squarepod #sponsored The NFL has never been more powerful. Ninety of the top 100 rated shows on television last year were NFL games. Sunday Night Football has been the number one rated show in prime time for 15 straight years. Networks are paying north of two and a half billion dollars a year for the right to broadcast games. Roger Goodell is doing his job — making the owners as much money as humanly possible — and he is doing it brilliantly. But there is a version of this story that ends badly. And LIV Golf already showed us exactly how it goes. The Saudis wanted golf. They thought it would be fun. They had money to burn, a brand to reshape, and a vision for what sports washing could do for Saudi Arabia's image on the world stage. They poured billions into LIV Golf. And then the moment it stopped being fun — the moment the returns did not justify the investment — they walked away. PIF pulled the funding. LIV is filing for bankruptcy. Just like that. Now look at what the NFL is doing. Games on Wednesday. Games on Thursday. Games on Friday. A new holiday invented specifically to justify another game. Nine international games this season with plans to expand to ten and eventually sixteen to twenty. The Chiefs played a game every day of the week except Tuesday a couple of years ago. The scarcity model — the thing that made the NFL appointment television — is being dismantled piece by piece. And who is being courted to pay for all of it? Apple. Amazon. Netflix. YouTube. Google. The biggest companies in the world. Companies that would love to have NFL games. Companies that think it would be fun and profitable and a great addition to their platforms. But here is the critical question Trey is asking: do they need it? Apple sells a gazillion iPhones whether or not they have Thursday Night Football. Amazon runs the largest e-commerce operation in human history whether or not they stream a game on Black Friday. Netflix became the most powerful streaming platform in the world before they had a single live sports property. These companies want the NFL. They do not need it. And the moment the economics stop working — the moment it stops being fun — they can walk away just like the Saudis walked away from LIV Golf. No existential threat. No crisis. Just a pivot. CBS cannot do that. NBC cannot do that. Fox cannot do that. ESPN cannot do that. When CBS lost the NFL package in the 1990s it nearly destroyed the network. Former CBS president Les Moonves said it plainly — one dollar with the NFL on our network is worth more than twenty dollars without it. That is not a company that wants the NFL. That is a company that needs it the way it needs oxygen. The NFL is at its absolute peak right now. But as Trey puts it — trees do not grow to the sky. And Mark Cuban said it in 2014 — pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered. The expiration date on that quote has passed and the NFL has proved him wrong on the timeline. But the principle may still be right. The question is not whether the NFL can make more money chasing tech deals. It can. The question is whether it should — and whether being wanted by the biggest companies in the world is the same thing as being needed by them. It is not. LIV Golf already proved that. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Bryson DeChambeau Is Killing LIV Golf One Quote at a Time

Bryson DeChambeau Said He Might Just Do YouTube. That Is a Disaster for LIV Golf. LIV Golf is looking for 250 million dollars in outside investment to survive past this season. PIF has pulled its funding. The tour is preparing to file for bankruptcy. Scott O'Neill — LIV's CEO — is scrambling to find sponsors, media rights deals, and investors who believe there is still a business here worth saving. And then Bryson DeChambeau went on a podcast and said this: "I'm in that weird space right now. I don't know what to do either. Content creation or professional golf. I don't know what to do right now." Scott O'Neill, somewhere, felt that. Bryson is not just a player on LIV Golf. O'Neill has called him a business partner. Said he is in the room for negotiations. Said he has ideas and is invested in the future of the tour. Bryson is the one LIV player who transcends the tour — three million YouTube subscribers, a crossover audience that follows him for the content as much as the golf, a personality that generates attention whether he is playing well or not. If LIV has a calling card heading into investor meetings, it is Bryson DeChambeau. And Bryson just told the world he might be done with professional golf. Trey breaks down exactly why this matters — and why the timing could not be worse. Without unlimited guaranteed money, what is LIV actually selling to players who could be on the PGA Tour? Without Bryson and Jon Rahm, what is the product? And without a compelling product, how do you convince 250 million dollars worth of investors that this thing has a future? It was always about the money. That is the honest version of why players went to LIV in the first place. Graham McDowell said it. Dustin Johnson essentially said it. Everyone knows it. The guaranteed money was the entire value proposition. Now the guaranteed money is gone. And the one player who might have been able to stay relevant without it — because his YouTube channel gives him an independent income stream — is the same player who just raised his hand and said maybe I'll just do that instead. Trey also addresses the competitive fire question directly. Brooks Koepka came back from LIV and said he has fallen in love with the game again. Tiger Woods is grinding through a body that has been through more surgeries than most people can count because he wants win number 83. That is what greatness looks like. Bryson has won two US Opens. He has been on the biggest stages in golf and delivered. The question is whether that competitive drive is still there — or whether the content creator version of Bryson has become more interesting to him than the golfer version. And then there is the moon landing. Separate issue entirely. But Trey gets into that too. This is a story about one quote at exactly the wrong moment — and what it reveals about where LIV Golf actually is right now. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.