BMitch and JP react to Washington Commanders defensive lineman Jonathan Allen requesting a trade from the team.
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00:00a really good explanation. This is the business of football and folks shouldn't be surprised or
00:06upset like this is just how you know what I said I did you had a great quote and I meant it you
00:12said that's that's the business of football I dealt with it Mark Monk dealt with it hell
00:16Joe Montana dealt with hey bro I'm gonna tell you like this when you get into this league
00:22I want to tell every guy yes you should be prepared to play but you damn sure are obligated
00:28for yourself to learn the business side of this game because the moment that they can get rid of
00:34you and get somebody they think is better than you they will now it doesn't necessarily mean
00:38that the guy is better than you but they this is what it goes about when you sign your rookie deal
00:44you can be playing a certain level once you get to that next deal you can no longer play like you
00:50did on the rookie deal because now it may not be good enough it's basically what I mentioned
00:55when I told you my boy Kenny said he had gotten uh uh um what you call it uh
01:01when they give you a uh no no to give you the better job what you call it promotion promotion
01:07he got a promotion I said did they give you more money he said nah I got a different title I said
01:11nah dog don't accept that and he said why I said because you can get fired for today what you do
01:17the same stuff you're doing yesterday if you continue it this is the same thing with the NFL
01:22once you move on and you make that that big time player money your standards go up what they expect
01:30goes up and if you're not living up to it on a consistent or better than a better than consistent
01:36basis they start thinking that you're no longer the player that you thought that they thought you
01:40were it has nothing to necessarily do with how well you play or not it has a lot to do with how
01:45much more money we're giving you now so when you get more money you have to elevate and if you don't
01:52elevate in their eyes it's not necessarily in the player's eyes or the coach's eyes or or anybody
01:58it's what the front office has stipulated what they expect you to do if you're not doing it
02:02then that chance come for them to move on it totally be if you look at the top four um cap
02:09numbers on Washington's roster Deron Payne Deron Payne's at the top of the list has his cap numbers
02:16over 26 million he's got 9 million in guarantees um he would he would he would carry a 26 million
02:24dollar dead cap hit um if you cut them they ain't going Deron Deron Deron yeah yeah you're going to
02:31run so for everybody that's saying oh why why not get rid of Deron it's math dude some of these
02:37is is math the business of the sport one again right and you have and I tell every guy man
02:44I was a union rep I got as high as executive vice president and what I learned is that most guys
02:52are idiotic when it comes to the business side of football I would call meetings when I had to
02:56teach them something about the new CBA nobody showed up you know only time they showed up
03:01when they got checks so only time I would I would hold their damn checks for weeks
03:06until I figured out the day I'm going to do this and I'm going to educate you everybody came you
03:10know what I gave him the check after the damn meeting and if you didn't come to the meeting I
03:14didn't give it to you I mailed it to you so I did my job so every player has to learn that too
03:21and then you don't get you don't get overwhelmed by anything you don't you know it's not like uh
03:26oh I was ambushed no you weren't if you already learned the business you know what's coming you
03:31know how to expect it