Oh, we got drama today.

We were gonna talk about Matthew Stafford maybe going to the Giants, but now we got to talk about Matthew Stafford and Tom Brady embroiled in some drama, Buddy, and then Jordan Schultz and Ian Rappaport going at it about it.

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The NFLPA they came out there with their report cards for the teams.

Some teams still out here failing man, And I gotta tell you what I've been doing the last few days and what you guys are gonna be getting here on the Unafraid Show.

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So the Matthew Stafford drama is so originally it was we were going to talk about Matthew Stafford going to the Giants everything else, and then talk about that as it related to the NFLPA survey.

So Matthew Stafford is in a situation He's with the Rams, but the Rams may be ready to move on from him.

And part of it is because the dude's thirty seven years old.

He wants a new contract that's going to be commensurate with the upper level quarterbacks in the league, because he's like, I'm better than all these dudes way up here.

I should be paid like it.

So I'm not mad at that.

But the Rams are also like, uh, Cooper Cup you can as you can look for a trade and Matthew Stafford if we can't find a deal, you can get your butt up out of here too.

And the whole Super Bowl, you know, FM picks thing.

It worked right, but they haven't been great since, but they haven't been terrible either now.

So the move to move on from Jared Garf send him to Detroit that obviously worked.

They're reset and the roster and Stafford don't want to be a part of the rebuilt.

But he also wants that Brad as well, because you know, with the Lions beginning of his career, he knew and he was a part of losing a lot.

So now here's the drama.

So tweet comes in today and this one is from Jordan Schultz.

I'm gonna put it up.

Jordan Schultz puts up a.

Tweet that says sources minority owner for the Raiders, Tom Brady recently hosted Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford at his home in Montana, where they spend time together and went skiing.

Brady has been actively trying to convince Stafford to join the Raiders.

Okay, when you see that tweet.

You're like, oh oh to me, that says uh oh because Tom Brady got no business because he's the Raiders minority owner, hosting a free agent and hanging out talking shop with him up there in Montana.

Come on, now, man, so and then you had Ian Rappaport, who's a big time NFL insider.

He came out and then said, no, no, no, no no.

Both of these dudes just so happened to be in Montana at the same time skiing, and they just ran into each other.

All right, all right, all right, fam let me tell you how this works.

I mean, I don't actually, I don't even have to tell you guys.

You guys got some damn common sense.

What do you think The chances are Tom Brady just so happens to be at his ranch in Montana and Matthew Stafford just so happens to be out there at the same place the same time, just so happened to run into each other, you know, on the on the ski lift at the lodge.

And I'm a person travel a lot, so yes, I run into people all the time.

Coincidence has happened, But this sort of.

Coincidence just when it just so happens that Matthew Stafford is looking for a new team, might be looking for a new contract.

The Raiders need a quarterback.

Come on, man and Tom Brady.

Remember here's the other thing.

This is the same man that went and met with the Dolphins owner on his yacht.

And do you know how we know this because Brian Floores when he exposed this, billed all the beans about Tom Brady and that he was trying to get him the back door everything there, and Brian Flores said, no, I'm not doing it.

And the owner what happened.

He ends up getting fired everything else.

So Tom Brady is not above this back door action.

So then you're like, why is Ian Rappaport going so hard about cleaning this up?

And now mind you don yee tom Brady's agent according to Ian Rapperport, And I'm gonna put this tweet up here too the way y'all can see it.

So then you have Ian Rapperport put up.

Oh.

Tom Brady and Matthew Stafford, like many other high profile athletes, both own houses in the same SKEI community, and Tom Pellicero says that he reached out to comment about the internet rumor that Tom Brady hosted Matthew Stafford on a recruiting visit in Montana.

Brady's longtime agent Don Yee told me, quote, I know the reporters sometimes make mistakes in their haste, but the story's inaccurate.

What did you expect the dude to say?

He wasn't gonna sit up here and tell you because that would be a first class violation.

And the Miami Dolphins, remember they lost a first round pick behind that, So you don't think that the NFL wants to is now going to be asking questions, Oh, hold up, Matthew, when did this itinerary get booked?

Brady?

When did this itinerary get booked?

Did you leave the day after?

Were you're only there a day?

What?

What's the what's the four one one?

That's the gotcha?

Gotcha here?

Because I get it, I won understand.

Yes, coincidence has happened in life.

Sometimes it's the worst timing.

Sometimes it's the best of timing.

Sometimes things you can look guilty as hell and you are actually innocent.

So this is where Ian Rapperport and Jordan Schultz got into the fight.

So you saw the Ian Rappaport tweet, right, So here is the other part of the Jordan Schultz tweet.

Because at the top, the man says, if you really think Tom Brady and Matthew Stafford just happened to run into each other at a ski resort in Montana, of all places, at the exact same time, I got a bridge to sell you.

Yes, it's not like you.

You were like, oh, they ran into each other at the Whole Foods and contented.

They just so happened to be at the same ski resort at the same time.

Listen, I run into people all the time, and you know what you do, Hey, what's up?

Hummy?

Cool?

Peace?

That's it.

You don't sit down and talk.

But they had something to talk about.

So I don't care what anybody says.

This would not even be news except for the fact that it's actually news.

Think about this.

If Tom Brady and matt Matthew Stafford just saw each other, it was like, all right, cool peace.

Nobody would have said anything, But just the fact that they were both there, that means that there were some talks, that there was some extensive conversation beyond the normal pleasant trees of hey, what's something, man?

Oh you out you out here with the fam?

Oh, man, that's cool.

I'm out here with the family, or I'm out here with Shorty or this or that.

Whatever Tom Brady's doing, that's the difference.

We can't sit.

Here and and just ignore the possibilities.

But you know who really ain't gonna be ignoring it, the NFL, because they don't want no part of this buddy.

And the team that we thought that he may be going to that we were gonna talk about earlier was the New York Giants, and that that might be not only Matthew Stafford but his wife, Kelly Stafford's preferred destination.

But at this point in time, how do we not think that the Giants are a mirror image of Stafford's time in Detroit?

I mean, hell, the Raiders.

But Tom Brady is like the de facto gm over at the Raiders, and he probably thinks and maybe can't convince Matthew Stafford that the Raiders could be a good move for him, they'll pay him the type of money or he's gonna convince him.

AA, Matthew, let's structure this deal similar to something that I did in Tampa Bay or what I did when I was in New England.

The way it's team friendly.

We can go heavy in free agency.

We're gonna draft well, and this will be a team that will be like the Washington Commanders next year that will be a potential playoff contender despite playing in the AFC West.

Just saying, so, the AFC West is murderers role right now.

Murderers roll with.

The Chargers are pretty damn good right now.

Obviously the Chiefs are tough, the Broncos, so the Raiders are at the bottom of the division right now.

It's gonna be tough to get up out of that thing.

And then look over at the NFC East that's full of heavy hitters too.

Commanders are on the rise.

Eagle's been to two Super Bowls in three years and are defending champions to Dallas.

Cowboys are systematically, you know, sporadically all in or whatever the S word that he used.

I'm just saying now when it relates to the nflp NFLPA Survey.

Though I do wonder because we're gonna get to that in a second, because if Matthew Stafford even cares about that, because the Giants are in the bottom third of seven categories and the top third of ero categories when it comes to player satisfaction.

And I get it, Matthew Stafford, the dude has earned the right to bet on himself.

And if he thinks that, the answer is New York or it's the Raiders, far being from me to stop him.

But you're also going into a situation where the head coach, Brian Dable could not even could is on the hot seat, and he's actually been most effective with mobile quarterbacks, namely Josh Allen.

Matthew Stafford ain't that, but he is one of the better quarterbacks in the NFL.

And then the Giants don't make.

Sense either, because they've had double digit losses in seven of the last eight seasons and have not had double digit winning season in over that run at all.

Just say, I don't even know if matt Matthew Stafford is gonna want to go there now.

The Giants, though, have ranked twenty ninth or below in points and yards for the last five seasons, so they are desperate.

They let Sakuon Barkley go he wins a championship.

They had signed the quarterback Danny Dimes that didn't work out, and now they are in desperation mode.

And the offensive line ain't even that great.

I'm just saying.

And now the funny part is, believe it or not, the Lions on the Stafford's old team, the Lions only ranked twenty ninth or below in one of the two categories in the five years before drafting Stafford.

Just saying, so you can actually make the objective case that the Giants are worse than the er to sixteen Lions were when they drafted Matthew Stafford.

So don't think that he should go there.

But you might try to if you're trying to put Malik neighbors On in a high Hall of Famer Calvin Johnson's level.

But I don't think that that's a good idea.

So on to the next thing, the NFLPA.

The report cards are out and you are going to find out, if you have not seen it, who are the best teams.

Who are the teams that the players like to play for the most.

So pull this little dou Hiki off of here, off of front off of sports, and here's what we got.

So we got Minnesota the number one team.

Whoever would have thought it?

I did not think it.

But Minnesota a's and a plus is all over the place.

Coach, owner, food, travel, family, weight room, trainers, every brother's team is.

This is a first class organization by vo Minnesota Vikings.

Just say it.

Oh so excuse me.

Miami Dolphins were one Minnesota Vikings too, but their report cards looked the exact same.

Now the Dolphins, though they were top ranked in the NFLPA survey two years ago.

And this goes to show you that satisfaction by the players does not.

Mean that you win.

And it also doesn't mean that everybody is fully satisfied.

Looking to rig Hill, he ain't satisfied at all, not even a little bit.

So that's a thing right there.

And it is.

Important that teams in there that the players and their families feel comfortable.

So like, one of the areas that a lot of teams rank very low is family experience and how they treat the families.

Like for instance, there are some teams that keep a daycare at the facility.

Right, I'm sorry, at the stadium big that way when you know moms bring the kid to the game, that can drop them off in the family room.

The way they're not trying to run around in the stadium or babies in the stadium.

It could be cold or this or that, and they can get three hours of uninterrupted like you know, just a break.

Do they feed the families.

How do they like the family area that they put them in after There's all sorts of things when it relates to the family.

And obviously if your family ain't happy, you ain't gonna be happy.

Now.

The top five rounded out obviously was Miami Dolphins, Vikings, Falcons, Raiders, and Chargers.

I was actually surprised that the Chargers were ranked so high because they have a notorious history of how they are being judged now, but they are one of the biggest improving teams now.

The other biggest improving team was the Falcons because Atlanta went from twenty fifth to third this year, and the Chargers, who got new facilities because they were, you know, living in a temporary shed for a while, went from thirtieth to fifth.

Chargers were a good team this year.

Atlanta was cool, while Kirk Cousins was healthy.

I'm gonna tell you, when owners treat players well, they're not in a hurry to get up out of there, especially not to go to somewhere that they are not going to treat you well.

And one of the teams that's very interesting that you would think would be better as the Kansas City Chiefs.

Now their players are unhappy because their owner, who they gave a C minus, he had promised stadium upgrades, locker room upgrades, but instead he spent a million dollars to upgrade his own suite and was like, yo, I don't have time, Like there's not time for the season, upgrade the locker room and all that, but yeah, y'all can finish my suite.

Though that don't work for the players, but it also does not necessarily mean that you're gonna win, but it does impact free agency.

Now.

The surveys, though, they clearly showed that the players respond to positive change, because the Commanders went from last under Daniel Snyder to eleventh after Josh Harris took over his owner, and you added a new head coach to the mix as well in Dan Quinn.

Now, I don't think that they hated, they're the last coach, But I think that they feel better, like people are generally happier when you are winning.

And the survey does also show that concerns are being addressed across the league.

And this is what the entire point of the NFL Players Survey is, where they interview all where they survey every single player in the league.

Now, because there was a forty one percent increase in a's in all categories last year, and J.

C.

Tretdord ahead of the PA said that he noted that there were three times as many A pluses than last year, and while D pluses and below decreased by fifty one percent from last year.

That means that the own and the general managers listened like, oh yo, let's create a better work environment and let's not be embarrassed when these damn reports come out.

So you had Arthur Blank, the owner for the Atlanta Falcons.

He actually seemed to be one of the owners that takes the negative feedback personally and he's like, no, nah, nah, y'a ain't gonna say this about me.

And actually he's one of the most fan friendly owners in terms of what goes on at Mercedes ban Stadium.

When you go to Atlanta, they have the.

Cheapest drinks, the cheapest food, the cheapest everything of all of the stadiums.

They make it that way.

You can eat on twenty bucks and get a you know, a king's ransom worth of food.

Because they're like, we're already charging you for these tickets.

We are going to make it a place where families are like, yo, I can afford to go there.

Yes, these tickets are expensive, but after that it's a layup.

After that that's important fan experience.

And a lot of owners or a lot of people who run the facilities, they're like, we need that cash, homie.

Now, these surveys do give us an opportunity to call out owners directly, and the usual suspects are taking a beating and they deserve it.

And some of the most improved survey categories for owners willingness to invest in team facilities, contributions to a positive team culture, and a commitment to building a competitive team.

Now there were three owners though, that ranked in the bottom five of all those categories, Patriots, Robert Kraft, jets Or Robert Woody Johnson and David temper Over with the Carolina Panthers.

Now Robert Kraft, the owner of the Patriots.

So it just goes to show that you can paint an unglamorous, bare bones experience as the cost of winning as long as you are winning.

Because as long as they were winning, nobody was complaining about it.

You start losing this when I'm telling you it impacts your move.

Now you got over with the Jets.

Woody Johnson, dude is just too involved.

He's letting his son make decisions on free agents and who they sign and all of that stuff.

He's not letting the football people do the football things.

It's almost like he wants to be Jerry Jones, and Jerry Jones the word I use for him.

He is well meaning, but he's a tinkerer.

He's got too many jobs, man, like a Jamaican.

Too many jobs.

Man, I got so many jobs.

But he doesn't have that same grace that thirty year old Super Bowls provide because Jerry's at least gotten it done before.

And then you look at the you know, the Carolina Panthers owner David Tepper.

Dude, this emotional.

He is like, I'm going to make moves quickly, and oh I don't like you.

Get him up out of here.

Get his ass up out of here.

And then you have owners that do one of these things well, like an owner like Michael Bidwell for the Cardinals.

He's done a good job of paying the most important guys like Boodle Baker, James Connor, and Kyler Murray.

But the facilities are completely terrible.

The food is a bad situation, and every time you hear his name in the news, he's getting sued by people that spend the most time around him.

That's the problem.

And this is the part that makes no sense to me.

If you are an organization and this NFL report card comes out and they're talking about your food and your nutritionists, that makes no sense to me.

The players are your product.

They need to be well fed with quality ingredients the way then they can go perform well because you fuel your body with food.

And you're giving them trash food or.

Not enough food, or the wrong kinds of food, or making them pay for food.

Come on, man, invest in your product.

Then let's look at Jimmy Haslam with the Cleveland Browns.

He's also at the bottom of two categories, culture and team building.

And when you have one player that's fully guaranteed injured and wasn't even playing well at the time.

Now, yes, I will say that that can skew the data pretty drastically when all of those things are taking place.

That's just the truth.

Now there are some interesting other takeaways though.

There were three teams that do not offer daycare for players families during the home games, and ten do not even have a family room with their stadium.

Make it make sense.

They had that when I was playing in two thousand and three.

And the Bengals are the only team on both of those lists, which explains the F minus they got for treatment of families.

Come on, man, there were only four or f minuses giving out in total.

The Browns got a F minus for their locker room.

They locker room must be trash.

I never been in there, don't want to go in there.

Cardinals F minus for the locker room.

And then the Bills F minus for travel.

What are we doing?

What are we doing?

How are you traveling so poorly?

If you are the Bills, are you staying in Motel sixes and making everybody get their own bunk up?

And this makes no sense?

Come on, fam you gotta be better than that.

And then last year the Commanders their locker room was given an F minus last year because of multiple sewage leagues.

Come on, man, Come on owners, and then that jumped to a regular old F this time.

Hey the but thirty seven percent of the players still did cite ongoing plumbing issues.

Can we get that fix?

Can we please get all?

Right?

Y'all go, y'all gonna learn one of these days.

Now, that might be why Washington might not sign as many free agents, because there's a very attractive team right now.

Apparently the Patriots team plane has no Wi Fi.

Do you know how maddening it is when you get on a flight now with no Wi Fi?

Imagine on a five hour flight, ain't a liqu of Wi Fi on there?

Damn shame.

That means the ain't watching no TV, no nothing.

Hey, hey, hey, y'all sit back there and play the quiet game.

And apparently it still has as trays in the seat arms, like we're living in the days of mad men.

Come on, man, when is the last time you saw ash trays in the seats of an airplane?

They won't even let you vape on an airplane.

Why were there even ass trays to begin with?

Come on, man, and the Chiefs players said they don't even like taking their shoes off in the team hotel because the.

Floors are too gross.

Man, Come on, man, And if I were playing at this time, I would have filled out the survey one hundred percent honestly, as a lot of these players did.

Because if you want something something fixed, you gotta say it.

And the play and the teams have done a good well.

The owner, the excuse me, the players Association has done a great job of keeping it private the way they don't know who said it, all right, lasting up here on the Unafraid Show.

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