Pederson addressed the media on Tuesday and talked about the accusations against former kicker Brandon McManus
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00:00 Yes, all the article that came out, um, you know, obviously disappointing to
00:04 hear the news. Um, that took place. Um, you know, other than other than that,
00:11 honestly, being that it's a, you know, a legal matter at this time, you know,
00:16 can't really comment until till more information is gathered. That's the
00:22 first. That's the first. Yeah, first ever. Yes, correct. You don't want to
00:25 answer. It alleges that this was like some party scene going on on the flight.
00:31 Is that is that accurate? Or is that not what that flight looks like? I mean,
00:38 a typical flight is not that way. It's a business trip. It's a business trip,
00:43 and that's how we that's how we approach it from an organizational
00:45 standpoint, you know, from the league standpoint. So, um, for that, when I
00:50 read that, you know that that part of his disappointing.
00:53 No, Brandon released because performance anything to do with this.
00:58 Any did you?
01:00 Yeah. Why was he released? Well, I think I think there's a couple of reasons.
01:04 One. Yeah, performance. I mean, that's obviously in this business, you know,
01:08 whether it's a coach or a player, it's performance driven, right? Um, you know,
01:13 then you start talking about contracts and the amount of contracts and the
01:16 number of the dollars and cents go into it a little bit. The age of the player.
01:20 I mean, there's a lot of things that they can factor into. And in the fact
01:23 that, you know, yeah, it's a It's a position that, um, it's a key position.
01:28 You know, it's critical. It's valuable because it gives us as a team points,
01:34 you know, on on the board or not. Um, and then if we have an opportunity to,
01:40 um, you know, draft somebody, you know, looking looking forward, then we take
01:45 advantage of that. So, you know, I think there's several factors and not not
01:50 just in this case and Brandon's case, but I think that's the same way with
01:53 any position that we look at the time you released made that decision. You
01:57 didn't. You guys didn't know anything about this. None of this. No, no,
02:00 right, right.
02:01 The seating done on like that flight to London staff separate players, you
02:09 know, and I'm not gonna get into a ton of those questions, you know, right
02:13 now until again more information. But, you know, we sit down. I'll just just
02:18 maybe a brief comment. Yeah, we do sit down and we want to make sure that,
02:21 you know, the players are together and coaches together, staffs together and
02:24 things of that nature and everybody's comfortable and has, you know, has