Austin Bonta

that he means it and your best play is to maximize the trade possibilities and do the deal.

This assumes the Raiders are going to realize that they need to do it.

It's hard for the rational mind to predict the behaviors of the irrational.

And all due respect to the current power structure there, the owner is still the owner.

Mark Davis is still making these calls.

And there hasn't been a whole lot that he's done by way of decisions over the past 15 years that would objectively be called rational.

I'm curious as we're joined by Mike Florio.

He is the creator and editor-in-chief of Pro Football Talk, an article that you just published as we were coming on the air about Steve Tisch and the fact that we know there's a Jeffrey Epstein problem for a lot of people right now, and Tisch is one of the people who has been named.

He said he had a brief association, but you've kind of uncovered that there's even more than that going on, and the NFL has a serious issue.

What can you tell us about that?

Well...

Yeah, when the most recent Epstein Files document dump happened 13 days ago, Tish's name came up.

There were some emails with kind of skeevy, pervy content objectifying women, suggesting that Epstein was trying to connect Tish with younger women.

There's been no suggestion that anyone is not of legal age, but the whole thing just looks bad.

The problem for the NFL

and I don't know whether it's a problem, this may be the way that they avoid having to do anything, there's no criminal allegation, there's no lawsuit, there's no

clear, objective wrongdoing.

So I think, like so many other things we see in today's society, everybody involved is going to keep their head low, their mouth shut, and wait for all of our goldfish brains to focus on whatever the next scandal is, because there's always something else.

And that thing that seemed like the most important topic ever subsides.

Now, these Epstein files, they have had staying power, despite the best efforts of many