Mike Florio

It's going to be 18 games

versus zero games and what kind of a war chest are the players going to have in place what kind of plans will they have in place to withstand a work stoppage when they've had so much turmoil over the past year so the nfl has them right where they want them and the nfl i think is playing it cool for now and then at the appropriate time they're going to make their move and if that doesn't happen 2031 the players are going to have to ask do we want to play zero or do we want to play 18th

It's time for it to go.

And my next level conspiracy theory here is they moved it from Sunday to Tuesday night to justify killing it because it destroyed the ratings, embarrassingly low, and there is going to be a number below which the NFL says there's just no point in doing this.

So I think we're getting closer and closer to the extinction of the Pro Bowl games, which means we won't have, and I guess I shouldn't complain because

This results in page views and clicks and content for us.

We won't have the drip, drip, drip of the Joe Flacos of the world becoming pro bowlers and the Justin Fields of the world declining an opportunity to become a pro bowler.

Just name the teams and move on.

I think that's where we're going to ultimately be, and we're in this transition period now where they're easing away from the old Pro Bowl game and they're going to end up having a Pro Bowl nothing.

Just name the teams and move on.

But 1.9 million is still very good.

In this day and age, to have 1.9 million people tune in at the same time to watch the same thing is no small feat, but it is well beneath the standard the NFL has created for itself.

flag football upon us for the next couple of years up to the Olympics.

Now, I think those do well in the Olympics because anything does well in the Olympics.

Sports that we ignore for three years and 50 weeks until it becomes the center of the sports universe as part of the Olympics, I don't know that we're ever going to respond to flag football in any setting other than the Olympics.

But they're trying their damnedest to use flag football as this next wave of internationalizing the game.

Well, and some people see, and I think this is next, next, next level conspiracy theory, but some people see that to the extent that they can grow flag football and make it something that people will consume and follow and enjoy, if for whatever reason they come up with a test that shows what your risk of long-term CTE is while you're still alive, because they still can't diagnose CTE in a living patient.

If there's ever a point where tackle football just is no longer sustainable, we just flip the switch to flag and

Some people think that's part of why they're pushing for the growth of flag, because it becomes worst case scenario alternative to tackle football if we ever get to that point.

And they thought of everything.