Mike Florio

There was a break eight minutes into free agency of the Patriots signing a free agent in this past cycle.

And there have been other things that people are going to look at.

They're going to ask questions.

And I think going forward, the reporting is going to be clouded by

that basic question, not just of bias, but the broader relationship.

And again, I'll defer to the denials, I'll defer to the photos, and I'll allow people to come to their own conclusions, but I don't know.

I feel like this is something that has the potential to hang around and maybe to expand into some different questions and some different angles and different developments and potential consequences as time goes by.

Tom Brady crossed the bridge and now Troy Aikman is following in the trail that Brady blazed.

And the NFL allowed this.

That's really the fundamental problem here.

When Tom Brady was trying to buy a piece of the Raiders and was already employed by Fox, the NFL should have gone to him and said, Tom,

You can't do both.

You can't be Fox analyst covering all the league and have a clear financial interest and a fiduciary duty to the Raiders.

Anything he finds out in the course of working for Fox, he's expected to share with the Raiders.

And then Aikman flat out says the Dolphins knew.

that Aikman has information that they don't have or can't get.

And he's being surprisingly blunt and nonchalant about the whole thing, but the NFL has allowed this to happen.

So the NFL either needs to close the door now, or every team should be making a list of anyone who's in a stadium every week, play-by-play, analyst, sideline reporter.

I mean, you got somebody who's behind enemy lines with eyes and ears.

always open, picking up all sorts of stuff.