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Since this site has a strong history of interest in the business side of the NFL, I thought I'd take a minute and recommend a new podcast:
The Business Of Sports With Andrew Brandt
The host, Andrew Brandt, has been an agent for a decade and then was Green Bay's General Consul and VP of Player Finance for a decade after that and now runs a Sports Law program at Villanova. He's literally been 'in the room' at all those NFL owner's meetings and player contract negotiations.
So far there are two episodes.
The first was with former PHL and CLE executive Joe Banner, with lots of great discussions about how a team goes about deciding which players to draft, and what the CBA was supposed to do to address the rookie contract explosion by shifting money to veterans and how it's falling short on that score.
The second was super-agent Tom Condon, who has been the agent for players such as Payton and Eli Manning, Drew Brees, etc. He had a long discussion about Payton's recent retirement as well as Sam Bradford's recent desire to be traded by PHL.
He's been a weekly guest on Ross Tucker's podcast and has had a lot of insights on legal things like the Tom Brady case too. He has been in the room for pretty much every hearing on the case so he isn't just lobbing spitballs, he shares what he saw going on in the room. He is a very traditional thinker so he was shocked when Brady won the first appeal and was totally expecting the NFL to win the second appeal.
It'll be interesting going forward what topics he picks to cover and what guests he can get onto the podcast.
The Business Of Sports With Andrew Brandt
The host, Andrew Brandt, has been an agent for a decade and then was Green Bay's General Consul and VP of Player Finance for a decade after that and now runs a Sports Law program at Villanova. He's literally been 'in the room' at all those NFL owner's meetings and player contract negotiations.
So far there are two episodes.
The first was with former PHL and CLE executive Joe Banner, with lots of great discussions about how a team goes about deciding which players to draft, and what the CBA was supposed to do to address the rookie contract explosion by shifting money to veterans and how it's falling short on that score.
The second was super-agent Tom Condon, who has been the agent for players such as Payton and Eli Manning, Drew Brees, etc. He had a long discussion about Payton's recent retirement as well as Sam Bradford's recent desire to be traded by PHL.
He's been a weekly guest on Ross Tucker's podcast and has had a lot of insights on legal things like the Tom Brady case too. He has been in the room for pretty much every hearing on the case so he isn't just lobbing spitballs, he shares what he saw going on in the room. He is a very traditional thinker so he was shocked when Brady won the first appeal and was totally expecting the NFL to win the second appeal.
It'll be interesting going forward what topics he picks to cover and what guests he can get onto the podcast.