Mike Florio

Yeah, just eat a lot of food, Joe.

Well, there was another there was a sequel to the press conference that came out today.

I don't know if you had a chance to see what Joe his comments were today.

But when I was watching, I actually thought about you.

When I saw this, because he seems like a man who is being deposed.

It looks like one of those depositions where you're at the end of the table, they got the shitty camcorder set up, and he's thinking very carefully about how to answer each question.

Like, they said, do you think that you will be the quarterback for the Cincinnati Bengals next year?

And the way that he answered it seemed like he wanted to say...

I'm not sure but he didn't want to say I'm not sure he didn't want he was being very cagey with how he answered everything I don't have cagey is the right word but like intentionally careful about it's almost like he doesn't want to lie but he also doesn't want to come out and tell the full truth

I can confirm your reporting, by the way, about Joe going into the draft because I had direct negotiations with Joe Burrow regarding Joe going to the XFL for a year.

And I think the number he threw out was $50 million guaranteed for one year, and I will play for the D.C.

Defenders.

I was working behind the scenes trying to make that happen.

We didn't get 1% of the way there, but the notion that he was open to other concepts is accurate.

Before we talk some football for this weekend and playoffs and who you trust, Kevin Warren released another open letter about the Bears potentially expanding their search to northwest Indiana for their new stadium.

I assume this is leverage, but it is the dumbest continuing saga that's going on because Kevin Warren released a letter right before Monday Night Football week one.

saying, hey, we're going to be shovels in the ground.

We're going to be going in Arlington Heights.

We want to host the Super Bowl 2031.

We're at the end of 2025, and we have another open letter.