Move over, Jordon Hudson. Pablo Torre has a new pet story, and this one has NFL brass in a tizzy.<\/p>\n
The Meadowlark Media personality reported on his eponymous podcast\u00a0<\/a>on Tuesday<\/a> that the NFL may have\u00a0colluded with its 32 franchises to suppress guaranteed contracts for veteran players shortly after the Cleveland Browns signed quarterback Deshaun Watson to a massive, fully guaranteed $230 million contract in 2022.<\/p>\n Now, Torre claims he\u2019s being watched. Well, at least during his media hits. Appearing on\u00a0The Dan Le Batard Show<\/a> on Wednesday, Torre described how the NFL is reacting to his report.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u201cI would say that as the NFL\u2019s monitoring my media appearances, which they are, I just like that they had to listen to that as well,\u201d Torre said as Le Batard refocused the conversation from a joking discussion about champagne bottle accidents.<\/p>\n \u201cLook, Dan, I just need to stress that this is a document that neither the league nor the owners nor the union wanted out,\u201d Torre continued. \u201cThey fought extremely hard. Florio \u2014 the sell on this is that Mike Florio is as plugged into this as anybody \u2014 he\u2019s as fluent and obsessive about this stuff as anybody, NFL palace intrigue and the law, and he couldn\u2019t get it.\u201d<\/p>\n No doubt, the league office is probably very interested in finding any clues as to how Pablo Torre obtained the document, so of course, they\u2019ll be monitoring his media appearances. But now, the cat is out of the bag. The investigative journalist did what investigative journalists do, and now the NFL and NFLPA will have to deal with the repercussions<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cUnearthing this document unlocked one of the most fascinating stories I\u2019ve ever investigated, in large part because it\u2019s about what extremely powerful people \u2014 league officials, billionaire owners, and union leaders \u2014 have fought so hard to hide,\u201d Torre told Awful Announcing. \u201cAnd why? Because I\u2019m a journalist, my personal philosophy is that more sunlight is needed, not less.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Move over, Jordon Hudson. Pablo Torre has a new pet story, and this one has NFL brass in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,5745,6,14183,15804],"class_list":{"0":"post-159198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-mike-florio","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-pablo-torre","12":"tag-the-dan-le-batard-show-with-stugotz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114747994538779582","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}