DeMaurice Smith

speaker

756 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 16 Jul

DeMaurice Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 2 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 1.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

Pablo Torre Finds Out · Decoding the Kawhi Leonard Investigation, with DeMaurice Smith · 16 Jul 2026 podcast

So it does become this duality that you live with as a union leader because, yes, you are obligated.

And by the way, I took no apologies for vigorously defending our players.

That's the job.

But on the other side, you do have this obligation to vindicate and protect the deal because you cannot then have a world where if you are unwilling to enforce the rules of the salary cap, now team A, B, C, D, and E...

make deals to circumvent the salary cap.

And now you're in a position where you are perpetuating inequity in the system for which you are a co-owner.

Two things.

You have completely undermined the deal and the system for which you were a co-owner.

The union and that collective bargaining agreement, I mean, that starts for NFL in 1993 and it continues until today.

It's jointly owned.

It's ours.

And because it's ours, in the same way that the owners turn on the players, if they perceive some violation, whether it's drug use, steroid use, domestic violence, whatever it is,

The first thing you hear from a group of owners is, well, you know, we have to punish you because this is our system.

Well, what is good for the goose is indeed f***ing good for the gander, right?

And so that's the first thing.

The second thing is something that I am absolutely positive nobody else gets.

The day you make a decision as a union leader to turn a blind eye

to what a group of owners is doing that you know is unlawful is the day that they got you.

And they own you from that point.

Showing 201–220 of 756 · page 11 of 38