Mike Florio

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

to try to turn the page to a different topic, they continue to linger.

And from the league's perspective, and this is something I'm going to write hopefully this afternoon, if they wanted to, if they truly wanted to, if they're serious when they say they hold owners to a higher standard than players, they could focus on the very last item in the list of prohibited activities in the personal conduct policy.

I'm looking at it now.

It's under Article 1, Expectations and Standards of Conduct, the very last bullet point.

conduct that undermines or puts at risk the integrity of the NFL, NFL clubs, or NFL personnel.

I don't think it takes a major leap of logic to say an owner who is sending these skeevy, pervy emails that objectify women with the kind of language that was being used

Now look, does it go as far as the John Gruden emails?

Maybe not, but we saw what happened to Gruden.

And if owners are held to a higher standard than everyone else, I don't think it's a stretch to say that what Tisch did undermines or puts at risk the integrity of the NFL, NFL teams, or NFL personnel.

You just got to ask yourself, is this the way we want owners of these teams to be acting?

So if the league really wants to do something, it can.

But here's the problem.

You got other owners.

that won't want a standard like that to be applied to one, because then the concern is it gets applied to others.

And that's why it took them so long to finally wake up on Daniel Snyder.

It wasn't until they thought Daniel Snyder was stealing from them

through the visiting team pool and the alleged accounting irregularities that the commanders were doing to try to hide that money and move that money around.

That's when it became a problem for the other owners.