 with the Miles Garrett situation and it's very fluid Earlier today Adam Schefter reported that Miles Garrett now for those that don't know or might not know the name Miles Garrett is the player on the Browns that Ripped the helmet off of Mason Rudolph the quarterback of the Steelers On the Thursday night football game and smashed him over the head with his own helmet So Garrett's defense in appealing the indefinite suspension was that Mason Rudolph used a racial epithet or slur at him and that Angered him. Well, right before we came on the air It was announced by the NFL that Miles Garrett's suspension is upheld Marquis Pouncy Who defended his own quarterback of the Steelers? He had his suspension reduced from three games to two games, so There's two ways you could look at this the NFL heard what Garrett had to say Let's say they believe him. They still don't think it excuses his actions or They don't believe him now. I think that this is one of these things. There's microphones everywhere There's lip readers everywhere. When did he say it? Did he say it when when? He was on the bottom of the pile with the helmet on there's no way anybody would able to hear it Did he say it when the helmet was off? I've looked at that video over and over doesn't look as if he's saying a racial epithet again I'm no expert lip reader But the bottom line is that is quite an inflammatory defense and the NFL said They they have not articulated whether they believe him or not But by saying that the suspension is upheld either they believe him and it doesn't matter or they don't believe him And it's still indefinite well if they believe him and it doesn't matter then there's gonna have to be another Investigation to whether it was said or not because that would still be suspendable right so the NFL I would think would have to announce they're gonna investigate Rudolph to see if he said it That's a great point So if they haven't done that yet then you have to kind of lean towards they just didn't believe them that there's no evidence Now the Cleveland Browns are not talking There are there is some reports that this was something that they saw coming that he was gonna say that to the NFL But nobody has gone on record Sheldon Richardson wouldn't go on record kitchens wouldn't go on record to say that Miles Garrett told him or them anything prior to talking to the NFL So unless somebody on the field Can can back them up? I don't know where you go from it. The the surrounding players were all Steelers So are they gonna sell out their own? Teammate I don't know why would marquee's pouncy defend them like that. I don't know does he look at it as I'm just defending my teammate That's the most important thing overall. Did he just happen not to hear it, you know, so It just I'm trying to wrap my mind around why he would wait a week Well a stealer spokesman Burt Lawton said in a statement Mason vehemently denies a report of being accused of using a racial Slur during the incident Thursday night Cleveland He will not discuss this accusation any further and his focus remains on preparation for Sunday's game Against the Bengals now yesterday Rudolph told reporters. He didn't say anything to provoke Garrett or escalate the situation Here's Garrett post game because we talked about just just now In the soft open where if this was the word that was used or what inflamed Garrett so much. Why wouldn't he have said something right after the game to defend himself and here is a Miles Garrett answering post game last Thursday a week from tonight a week from tonight a week ago tonight He was asked directly did Rudolph say something This guy go look up They're gonna come no So what did I mean let me hear that again This guy go look at it. No, I'm not gonna they're gonna come no you gotta go look at it I'm not gonna comment on it. When's that from right after the game? You just you just have to go look at it I'm not going to comment. So he didn't completely eliminate. Oh Don't you love on a story that you were talking about the radio We think is closed book and then you find out. It's not hold on a second. I don't know That's interesting now. I didn't remember that at all. I didn't remember it either Here's Victor Cruz on NFL live today and he said that no matter what Garrett heard Or Rudolph said He's still wrong. I still think regardless of what was said to you or regardless of you know What said racial slur was said you still have to conduct yourself in a way that is Conducive to others and not you know swinging a helmet isn't the way you combat that right and swinging a helmet in the heat Of the battle isn't the way you combat someone giving you a racial slur in that moment now How I can see where he would take it to that measure I can understand that but is it the right thing to do? No, here's Marcus Spears On NFL live and he said hey Garrett better not be lying if this isn't true and my Garrett is using this to somehow in some way Lessen his penalty or make himself publicly look well then he should be suspended for more games Because when you make accusations like that obviously there has to be due diligence done and you open up a whole another can of worms well if If they're saying he better not be lying and Then Mason Rudolph saying he's not saying it. He didn't say it and there's no proof well The only thing that was accomplices that you have made people think that Mason Rudolph might have said it There's no proof that he didn't and there's no proof that he did but once you're accused of something Unless there's a total exoneration There's always gonna be that stain of the accusation So that's where this gets really really messy right now And that would be a shame if he didn't say it because that will be a stigma that will stick with him for the rest of His career and the people that choose to believe it will believe it the people that choose to not believe it will not believe it but they'll always be that air of He said something so you like to see there be proof either way and I do think that if there's proof He said it that he needs to be disciplined right Obviously there are rules against it's a penalty on the field if it's ever said and it can come with some Discipline from the league and considering that it basically would have incited a riot You you could certainly make the case that he should get the same if not more Then what Garrett got because that whole thing would then have happened because of the word that was said Right pouncy stomping on Garrett Garrett swinging his helmet at Rudolph the embarrassment of the league felt would have all then stemmed from that word being said It's interesting I googled this and saw that there was a little controversy five or six days ago About justina Anderson posting a tweet Implying that that could have been what happened that she then deleted right that then a lot of Right-leaning pundits jumped on and tried to throw in her face for deleting this tweet But it is interesting you wonder You know, maybe that was hearsay and there's something but maybe it was something that was being said around the time of the game And justina is locked in into the NFL Pete will her players tell her start her deleted tweet was Simply I would bet Miles Garrett will say he heard Mason Rudolph call him something egregious Never seen Garrett act like that ever Everybody says that but then his stealer teammates of Rudolph say that's not the Mason Rudolph. We know He would never he's never ever said anything like that in our locker room So who knows what happens in the heat of battle because you know in the old days the things that were said I mean great buttle tells us stories the things that were said and the things that were done No, well, it's a different time now. Yeah, I mean there is literally a penalty. It's a 15-yard penalty For saying that on the field. So well, we're in a different world now I'm sure that things were said years ago. Maybe even like 10 15 years ago, but it's not tolerated now now there