Chris Simms gets slammed for advocating ‘headhunting’ Jalen Hurts to stop the ‘tush push’
"If I was a defensive coach, I’d be going, 'Go headhunting on the quarterback here.'"
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Maria Taylor had a funny response to Mike Florio’s slip-up
"All right, thanks, Mike. Glad to know my ankle is doing good."
Chris Simms doesn’t seem sympathetic toward late TuAnon founder after tragic death
"We’re also setting an example like, ‘Hey here’s money to a guy who was very negative too'
Mike Florio calls out NFL.com for falsely crediting Ian Rapoport on his Jimmy Garoppolo scoop
"...and NFL.com pretends their guy broke it."
Eagles’ Howie Roseman takes a whack at Mike Florio: ‘If I was making a list of Top 5 conspiracy theorists around the NFL...
"I don't know if you would be 1. I don't wanna appoint you as 1, but you would definitely be Top 5."
The Mac Jones saga shows how modern NFL insiderdom is broken
Mike Florio: ‘Sooner than later we’re gonna have NFL football seven days a week’
"It’s gonna be hopefully in my lifetime a seven-day-a-week, primetime event. There’s too much money to be made."
Mike Florio says Tua Tagovailoa’s canceled PFT Live interview at Super Bowl LVII was ‘agent retaliation’
"This is more about agent retaliation for something that was said about him on one of our shows."
Al Michaels says Andrew Whitworth is taking calls from NFL teams: ‘I don’t want to put him on the spot’
"I was talking to Andrew Whitworth – part of our crew – last night, who’s been a great left tackle, retired of course. There are teams that are calling Andrew right now, the Bengals probably."
Amazon analyst Andrew Whitworth blasts Pro Football Talk, says the ‘many calls’ he got were only from reporters
"@ProFootballTalk has gotten another story wrong and failed to take any responsibility!"
Independent reporter Joseph Pasteris beat NFL “insiders” to Deshaun Watson news thanks to NFL communications portal error
"An issue arose during the preparation of the release that was to be published on and distributed via nflcommunications.com. We have taken steps to ensure this does not happen again."
Chris Simms drops f-bomb on Pro Football Talk Live, Mike Florio says “We do not apologize”
"#RealLifeIsRatedR" indeed.
ProFootballTalk’s Mike Florio: NFL Draft ‘is un-American’
The ex-labor lawyer argues players entering the workforce should be able to choose their place of employment.
Bobby Wagner blasts Mike Florio’s reporting of his contract, Florio initially stands by it, then says second year isn’t offset after all
Wagner's deal does have $10 million guaranteed, not the $6.5 million Florio initially reported. His 2023 roster bonus does not come with an offset.
Mike Florio talks new book ‘Playmakers,’ starting ProFootballTalk, & uncomfortable conversations with the NFL
Mike Golic will join Mike Florio’s Peacock/NBCSN Pro Football Talk show on Monday mornings
"It’s so great to have Mike Golic join the show. I could be wrong, but I think it’s the first time in broadcasting history that a morning show that focuses on sports will be hosted by two guys named Mike."
This Week In Hot Takes: Darren Rovell tells LSU gymnastics “No, you can’t put up a billboard for coming in second”
Rovell, a man who once gold-plated his shoes after finishing 21,463rd in a marathon, criticized a gymnastics team for celebrating finishing second nationally.
After criticisms of Kyler Murray, NFLN’s Charley Casserly revealed “I train over 100 players a year for combine interviews”
On The Michael Kay Show, Casserly revealed that he annually trains prospects for combine interviews. That should have been disclosed when he started passing along anonymous critiques of Kyler Murray's interviews.
