Mike Florio

Number one, you can't do it right if you're just halfway in.

And number two, even if you go all in, do we have any reason to think that Tom Brady knows how to build a winning football team?

Well, I assume that the announcement of the compensatory picks earlier this week means that any and all available internal appeals have been exhausted, that whatever the bears could do to say, hey, 345 Park Avenue, we'd like you to reconsider this situation.

To me, this is one of the most

strange, unforced errors that the NFL has ever committed.

There was no reason not to give the Bears the compensatory draft picks for Ian Cunningham, elevating from assistant GM to GM of the Falcons.

And it only got worse when Matt Ryan says, well, hey, Ian Cunningham's running everything.

And you've got both teams saying, yeah, I think the Bears should get the picks.

Think about it this way.

I always look at a controversial outcome where people have legitimate reasons to complain by flipping it over.

If the other thing had happened, who would have complained?

If the Bears had gotten the two third round picks, who would have said, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Matt Ryan's really the primary football executive in Atlanta.

The Bears should not have gotten those picks.

No one would have said that.

So the whole thing is just stupid to me and it's another example of how the NFL tries to avoid true accountability for its failures in hiring both as the coaches and executives over decades by coming up with these clunky band-aid

PR-driven excuses instead of addressing the real problem.

And as DeMora Smith, the former NFLPA executive director explained to me, we had an interview at the Super Bowl, Radio Row.

You can find it on our YouTube page.

The problem is there's never any real accountability.