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Mike Florio talks NFL's 'warped' compensatory draft pick reward system
06 Feb 2026
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Ladies and gentlemen, joining us now is a man who's got a massive brain.
Mike Florio.
He used to be a lawyer, then he decided to take his talents to the internet.
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Yeah, that's right. Our Mike Florio intro got a little different now that he's on 104.3 The Score with us. The creator and editor-in-chief of Pro Football Talk. He is at Pro Football Talk on X. He joins us from the Super Bowl. Mike is on the Circa Resort and Casino Hotline, CircaLasVegas.com. Mike, thanks for joining us.
I know we had to move your days because it's a busy time at the Super Bowl in San Francisco right now.
Yeah, it's been crazy, and we were actually live this week at noon Eastern every day just because we didn't want to start at 4 a.m. Pacific time. So it's been a crazy week, and now we've transitioned to full-blown Super Bowl pregame show preparation mode.
Well, and we also have some breaking news to discuss because this was out via Adam Schefter just about 10 minutes ago. The statement from the Browns on the resignation of defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz. Yesterday, Jim Schwartz submitted his letter of resignation as defensive coordinator of the Cleveland Browns.
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Chapter 2: What recent NFL news about coaching changes is highlighted?
for the various states out there in which NFL teams are headquartered, their attorneys general could try to investigate and enforce the state equivalence to the civil rights law that the federal government surely isn't going to be inclined to enforce in a situation like this, and that could try to improve it.
But my bigger problem is that there's even something like that in place, because remember when they initially came up with this compensatory draft pick reward, it was going to go to the team that made the hire. And the candidates were like, wait a minute, that stigmatizes us.
It makes it look like we only got the job or the deciding factor was the team that hires us is going to get these draft picks. So they pivoted to a reward for grooming and developing and promoting minority candidates. So the whole thing is just a bad way for the NFL to try to fix the problem.
And just the mere fact that I've gotten 50 emails over the last week and a half from Bears fans who want the compensatory draft picks, it just shows you how it's all kind of gotten warped under the broader question of whether and when and if the NFL is ever going to modernize and improve and diversify its hiring practices.
Well, especially when they use it as a shield. You know, they use the Rooney Rule and they hide behind their diversity initiatives as a shield and then to not put them in practice. And for Bears fans to appropriately call this out. And I love that they've been asking me questions, Mark questions, you questions. That's the right thing to do because don't tell us anything.
in the number three largest market in the country where we have these high expectations and we don't suffer fools. Don't try to tell us that that isn't a promotion for Ian Cunningham. He left. It's a promotion. The better question is, why is the NFL being stingy with something they're not even taking away from anybody else?
Like reward the good behavior to the faith and the spirit of the law rather than the letter.
Well, it does bump everyone else down by a spot, and these teams are very, very sensitive to that. But you're right. If they're going to have these policies in place, they have to apply them. And any flaws in the application undermine the overall purpose of what they're trying to do. And, you know, we do this every year. There are issues with the hiring numbers.
And this year we have 10 head coaching jobs that were filled and there were no black coaches that were hired. The commissioner gets through the press conference where he answers the four questions. And then, you know, it's like Punxsutawney Phil. It just disappears until next year when we do it all over again.
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Chapter 3: How does the compensatory draft pick system work?
Awful Announcing just released the numbers of the viewership for the Pro Bowl games. And it was averaging 1.9 million viewers on Tuesday night on ESPN, which according to this might be the worst ever when it comes to the rating that they drew.
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.
Right. Mitch Trubisky was a pro bowler. That's what people have in their pocket as an argument when they try to sell Mitch Trubisky because he got it.
Shador Sanders made the Pro Bowl.
Oh, my goodness gracious.
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.
Pretty amazing, really, when you think about all the successes of the NFL and how we brag about the ratings. Something has finally failed.
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.
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Chapter 4: What criticisms exist regarding the NFL's hiring practices?
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