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Abdul Carter Said He and Jackson Dart Talked Like Men. Why Not Do That Before You Tweet? Get up to $200 off Square hardware when you sign up at square.com/go/WINGO #squarepod #sponsored By now you have probably seen it. Jackson Dart — the New York Giants starting quarterback — introduced President Trump at a fundraiser. His teammate Abdul Carter reposted the tweet with a comment that essentially said what are we doing here. The post went viral. 55 million views. Every NFL show in the country had something to say about it. And then Abdul Carter posted again. Said he and Jackson Dart talked like men. Said everyone could keep their narratives. Trey has one question. Why not do that before you hit send? This is not a political story. Trey is not here to tell you whether Jackson Dart was right to introduce the president or whether Abdul Carter was right to respond the way he did. That is not the conversation. The conversation is about what happens inside an NFL locker room — and what the rules actually are. Here is what most people covering this story do not know. There are only two things that actually tear apart an NFL locker room. Two. Everything else — different backgrounds, different beliefs, different politics, different religions, different ways of seeing the world — all of that gets worked out because it has to. You are trying to win football games together. You put the other stuff aside. The two things you do not touch are somebody else’s money and somebody else’s family. That is it. Those are the lines. Cross either one of those and you have a real problem that winning might not even be able to fix. Michael Strahan and Tiki Barber never fully patched things up after Tiki crossed the money line. Drew Brees and Malcolm Jenkins had to have a genuine come to Jesus moment after the kneeling comments went public. These things leave marks. Jackson Dart did not cross either line. He introduced the president at a fundraiser. That is his right. That is his business. In a locker room that stays exactly where it belongs — in the category of things that are not your business because it is not your money and not your family. But here is where it got complicated. It went public. And the moment it went public it stopped being Jackson Dart’s private business and became everyone’s business — including 55 million people on social media who all had a take. And now the Giants locker room — which has 53 guys with 53 different backgrounds and 53 different sets of beliefs — has to manage something that never needed to leave the building in the first place. Abdul Carter said they talked like men and squashed it. Good. That is the right outcome. But Trey’s point is simple — if you can talk like men after, you can talk like men before. One conversation before the tweet and none of this is a story. None of it. The 55 million views do not happen. The hot takes do not happen. The Giants do not have to spend any energy managing a situation that has nothing to do with winning football games. And winning is what matters. Trey has said it for 30 years covering this sport. Winning is the ultimate deodorant in an NFL locker room. You will put up with anything — any personality, any opinion, any difference — as long as the team is winning. The moment the winning stops every little thing that you looked the other way about starts to become a problem. The Giants need to win. If they win this goes away completely. If they lose it will come back. Jackson Dart is the quarterback of the New York Giants. That means every action he takes is going to be scrutinized by every one of his 52 teammates. Some of them will agree with him. Some of them will not. That is the job. With great power comes great responsibility. He appears to have handled the aftermath well. The lesson going forward is that the leader of an NFL locker room has to think about how every public action lands inside that building — not because he is not allowed to have his own life and his own beliefs — but because perception is reality in a locker room and his job is to keep 53 guys pointed in the same direction. Talk first. Tweet second. That is the lesson. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Bryson DeChambeau Said He Might Just Do YouTube. That Is a Disaster for LIV Golf. LIV Golf is looking for 250 million dollars in outside investment to survive past this season. PIF has pulled its funding. The tour is preparing to file for bankruptcy. Scott O'Neill — LIV's CEO — is scrambling to find sponsors, media rights deals, and investors who believe there is still a business here worth saving. And then Bryson DeChambeau went on a podcast and said this: "I'm in that weird space right now. I don't know what to do either. Content creation or professional golf. I don't know what to do right now." Scott O'Neill, somewhere, felt that. Bryson is not just a player on LIV Golf. O'Neill has called him a business partner. Said he is in the room for negotiations. Said he has ideas and is invested in the future of the tour. Bryson is the one LIV player who transcends the tour — three million YouTube subscribers, a crossover audience that follows him for the content as much as the golf, a personality that generates attention whether he is playing well or not. If LIV has a calling card heading into investor meetings, it is Bryson DeChambeau. And Bryson just told the world he might be done with professional golf. Trey breaks down exactly why this matters — and why the timing could not be worse. Without unlimited guaranteed money, what is LIV actually selling to players who could be on the PGA Tour? Without Bryson and Jon Rahm, what is the product? And without a compelling product, how do you convince 250 million dollars worth of investors that this thing has a future? It was always about the money. That is the honest version of why players went to LIV in the first place. Graham McDowell said it. Dustin Johnson essentially said it. Everyone knows it. The guaranteed money was the entire value proposition. Now the guaranteed money is gone. And the one player who might have been able to stay relevant without it — because his YouTube channel gives him an independent income stream — is the same player who just raised his hand and said maybe I'll just do that instead. Trey also addresses the competitive fire question directly. Brooks Koepka came back from LIV and said he has fallen in love with the game again. Tiger Woods is grinding through a body that has been through more surgeries than most people can count because he wants win number 83. That is what greatness looks like. Bryson has won two US Opens. He has been on the biggest stages in golf and delivered. The question is whether that competitive drive is still there — or whether the content creator version of Bryson has become more interesting to him than the golfer version. And then there is the moon landing. Separate issue entirely. But Trey gets into that too. This is a story about one quote at exactly the wrong moment — and what it reveals about where LIV Golf actually is right now. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Captain Jim Furyk on Why America Keeps Losing the Ryder Cup — and What He Is Going to Do About It The United States has not won a Ryder Cup on foreign soil since 1993. That is not a talent problem. The Americans have had the best players in the world for most of that stretch. It is something else. And Jim Furyk — the newly named US Ryder Cup Captain heading into Adare Manor in 2027 — knows exactly what it is. Trey sat down with Furyk for his first major interview since taking the captaincy. This is not a press conference. It is a real conversation about what has gone wrong, what needs to change, and what the plan actually looks like to finally bring the Ryder Cup back to American hands on European soil. Furyk has been part of this event since 1997. He has played on 16 teams. He captained the US at Paris in 2018 and served as a key figure in Montreal in 2024. Nobody in American golf has more experience inside this event than Jim Furyk. And he is not sugarcoating anything. The foursomes problem is real and he names it directly. One and seven in Rome. Two and six at Bethpage. Even in the blowout win in Montreal, the US was three points down in alternate shot. Furyk breaks down exactly why that has happened — from the golf ball situation to the pairings to the communication breakdown between captains and players — and what specifically changes under his watch. The organizational overhaul goes deeper than most people realize. Furyk is not just picking 12 players and sending them out. He is building a pipeline. He named Stuart Appleby and Justin Leonard as vice captains early — not because the job needs filling now but because he wants them inside every decision from day one. The goal is continuity from Ryder Cup to Ryder Cup. A program that learns and grows rather than starting over every two years with a new captain who has never run the operation before. The 2018 Paris lessons are specific and honest. Furyk talks about arriving in France exhausted — one day after the Tour Championship ended, Tiger's emotional comeback win still fresh, everyone running on fumes. He talks about underestimating the executive nature of the captain's role. How you spend more time managing 75 to 100 people — players, caddies, spouses, coaches, staff — than you do watching golf. He will not make those same mistakes at Adare Manor. The team arrives early. They get comfortable. They know the course before they tee it up in competition. The LIV qualification question comes up directly. With Bryson DeChambeau missing the cut at two straight majors and the future of that tour uncertain, how do LIV players earn their way onto the US team? Furyk addresses the point system overhaul, the captain's picks structure, and what he is actually looking for beyond just ranking. And then there is the culture question — the one that US golf fans have been asking for years. Why do the Europeans always look like they are having more fun? Furyk pushes back on that directly. He tells the story of 2008 at Valhalla — watching the Europeans on the 18th green on Saturday night, quiet and tight and concerned — and leaning over to his wife and saying they look like us every other year. Winning is fun. The US needs to get back to winning. The Ryder Cup is the greatest event in golf. Jim Furyk has spent 30 years inside it. Here is what he is building. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Why This PGA Championship Sunday Might Be the Greatest We Have Ever Seen Before we even get started — nobody knows what is going to happen on Sunday at Aronimink. And that is exactly the point. After 54 holes at the PGA Championship, we have something that has never happened before in the history of this championship. 22 players enter the final round within four shots of the lead. Twenty-two. The most in PGA Championship history. One of the most chaotic, wide open, impossible to predict major championship Sundays any of us have ever seen is set up and ready to go outside Philadelphia. Alex Smalley leads by two at six under par. A player with no PGA Tour wins, three previous PGA Championship appearances, and a best finish of T23. A Duke environmental science graduate whose parents have caddied for him throughout his career. If Alex Smalley walks out of Aronimink on Sunday evening with the Wanamaker Trophy it will go down as one of the greatest upsets in the history of professional golf. History says a two-shot leader wins about 40% of the time. That means 60% of the time — someone else does. And look at who that someone else could be. Jon Rahm is at four under par — two back. This is the first time Rahm has genuinely contended in a major since he left for LIV. The man Justin Ray once called John Rahm Destroyer of Worlds — the player who won the 2021 US Open and the 2023 Masters, who was as dominant as anyone on the PGA Tour before he left — is right back there. His competitive fire is burning again at exactly the moment his tour's future is most uncertain. Rory McIlroy is three back. He opened with a 74. He followed it with a 67 and a 66. If he wins on Sunday it will be his seventh major. That puts him in extraordinarily exclusive company. He already has 30 PGA Tour wins and six majors. A seventh major at a course where he has played beautifully all week would be something to talk about for a long time. Xander Schauffele is three back. He won the PGA Championship two years ago at Valhalla. He won the Open Championship the same year. He knows how to close. Patrick Reed is three back — 68-72-67, steady as the entire week, earning his way back the hard way after LIV. Maverick McNealy is three back — his putter is his best weapon and the greens at Aronimink have rewarded good putting all week. Then there is Justin Rose. Made the cut on the number. Shot a 65 in round three. He is four back. He has a win and a second place finish in previous PGA Tour events at Aronimink. His only major was the 2013 US Open — played at Merion, just a few miles down the road from where they are playing this week. If Justin Rose wins the Wanamaker Trophy on Sunday he becomes the king of Philadelphia. Chris Gotterup — one of Trey's picks heading into the week — is at two under, four back. A Jersey kid completely comfortable in these conditions. Hideki Matsuyama is there. Ludvig Åberg is there. Cameron Smith — who has barely been heard from in a major since winning the Open Championship at St. Andrews in 2022 — is right there at two under. Scottie Scheffler, the number one player in the world, is at one under par. Five back. Trying to win back to back PGA Championships. Brooks Koepka has won three of these things. He is one under as well. The weather is going to be brutal. Temperatures approaching 90 degrees outside Philadelphia on Sunday afternoon. Those greens that played firm and fast all week are going to get crispier as the day goes on. The PGA Championship has historically been a birdie fest. Aronimink played like a US Open for the first two days. Sunday could be both — birdies early, survival late. One of these 22 players walks out with the Wanamaker Trophy on Sunday evening. We have absolutely no idea which one. And that is exactly why you cannot miss a single shot. Clear your Sunday.

Scottie and Spieth Rise. Rory and Bryson Collapse. PGA Championship Round 1 Recap. Get up to $200 off Square hardware when you sign up at square.com/go/WINGO #squarepod #sponsored Round 1 of the PGA Championship at Aronimink delivered everything you could ask for from a major championship opening day. A seven-way tie atop the leaderboard at three under par. A historic first for the world's best player. A grand slam chase that nobody took seriously suddenly very real. Two of the biggest names in the sport falling apart when it mattered. And a story nobody saw coming that reminded everyone why we watch this game. Trey Wingo breaks it all down from Cabo San Lucas — where he is on his annual college buddies golf trip — giving you the full picture of everything that happened in round one at Aronimink. Scottie Scheffler is tied for the lead. And here is the thing about that — for the first time in his career on the PGA Tour, Scottie Scheffler has either led or shared the lead after the first round of a major championship. He has been the dominant number one player in the world for three years. He has won four majors. And he has never been in this position after round one until today. His approach play has been slightly off this season by his own extraordinary standards. It was not off today. The full arsenal was on display. Scottie Scheffler is primed for something big over the next three days. Jordan Spieth is at one under par — two strokes off the lead. Spieth needs a PGA Championship to complete the career grand slam and join Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Tiger Woods, and Rory McIlroy in the most exclusive club in men's golf. Nobody was taking that seriously heading into this week. His recent PGA Championship record has been poor. He had no top tens this year. And then Thursday happened. The grand slam chase is suddenly very real. Martin Kaymer is also in contention and it is one of the best stories of round one. Kaymer is a two-time major winner — the 2010 PGA Championship and the 2014 US Open. He went to LIV and essentially disappeared. No top 20 finishes this season. Someone apparently questioned why he was even at Aronimink. Trey tells the full story of what happened next — and uses the greatest Bubba Watson club championship story you have ever heard to explain exactly why you never say that to a competitor. Now for the other side of the leaderboard. Rory McIlroy bogeyed five of his last six holes. The back-to-back Masters champion came in with a blister concern, played through it, and then fell apart down the stretch. He is at four over par with serious work to do to make the cut. Bryson DeChambeau made a birdie on his final hole to get in at six over par. A 76 in round one. He also missed the cut at the Masters. And Trey makes the case that two consecutive missed cuts in majors is not just a bad week — it is a direct hit to whatever negotiating leverage Bryson thinks he has with the PGA Tour. And then there is Garrick Higgo. Higgo was assessed a two-stroke penalty for being late to his tee time. He arrived at the tee box after 7:19 for a 7:18 starting time. Before he hit a single shot he was two over par. He finished the day at one under. One stroke off the lead. Seven strokes better than Bryson DeChambeau. With a two-stroke penalty already in the books. Round one at Aronimink gave us everything. Here is the full breakdown. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The Old Sports Media Model Is Dead. Here Is What's Replacing It. Get up to $200 off Square hardware when you sign up at square.com/go/WINGO #squarepod #sponsored For thirty years the sports media business ran on the same playbook. You got a cable deal. You sold advertising against live rights. You built an audience on linear television. And it worked — until it didn't. The companies that dominated sports media for a generation are now fighting to stay relevant in a world that is moving faster than their business models can handle. ESPN is dropping properties to pay more for the NFL. Cable is surviving on borrowed time. Publishers built on Google traffic are laying people off. Award shows that used to compete with the Super Bowl for ad dollars are moving to YouTube. And while all of that is happening, a completely different sports media world is being built from scratch. Trey sat down with Adam White — founder and CEO of Front Office Sports, one of the fastest growing sports media companies in the world — to break down exactly what is happening, why it is happening, and who is winning. Adam built Front Office Sports as a college class project at the University of Miami, conducting over 110 informational interviews with sports industry figures while working a bar job to pay the bills. Today FOS is backed by RedBird IMI — the joint venture led by former CNN president Jeff Zucker — with 200 million monthly social impressions, 35 million newsletter opens, and partnerships with the NFL, PGA Tour, WWE, and NWSL. The scrappy origin and the institutional money behind it now tells you everything about where sports media is actually headed. In this conversation Trey and Adam break down the full landscape. Why Amazon taking Thursday Night Football was not just a rights deal — it was a signal. Why Netflix and YouTube entering live sports changes the calculus for every traditional broadcaster. Why the NFL had 90 of the top 100 rated shows on television last year but is simultaneously diluting the scarcity model that made it so valuable. Why the Oscars moving to YouTube is not a footnote — it is the headline. And why sports has replaced entertainment as America's primary cultural conversation in a way that is not a trend but a permanent structural shift. Adam also addresses the question every legacy media executive is quietly asking right now — if you were building ESPN from scratch today, what would it actually look like? The answer is not what you think. This is a conversation about who controls sports media now, who is getting left behind, and why the gap between the old guard and the new entrants is only going to get wider from here. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Bryson DeChambeau Says He Can Play Majors and Build YouTube. How Would That Actually Work? Bryson DeChambeau has floated an idea that sounds simple on the surface — grow his YouTube channel, play the four majors, and compete in the tournaments that want him. No PGA Tour card. No weekly grind. Just content and majors. But underneath that is a much bigger question: can an elite golfer actually own his audience, control his schedule, and still remain one of the most relevant figures in the sport? To find out, Trey sat down with Chad Mumm — Executive Producer of Netflix's Full Swing and Producer of Happy Gilmore 2 — one of the few people who has been inside the PGA Tour locker room, inside the LIV saga as it unfolded, and inside the creator golf boom from the beginning. If anyone understands how the business of golf media actually works, it's Chad. In this conversation, Trey and Chad break down exactly what Bryson's plan would look like in practice. What does the YouTube economics model actually look like at three million subscribers — and what would it need to look like at ten million? What tournaments would even have him if he walked away from the PGA Tour permanently? And what's the difference between Bryson's approach to coming back and the path Brooks Koepka already took? Chad also addresses one of the biggest misconceptions in golf right now — that the PGA Tour's media policy is what drove players to LIV in the first place. Spoiler: it wasn't the content restrictions. And the new social media policy the Tour just announced isn't really about all players. It's about one. Beyond Bryson, Chad reflects on five years of covering golf's most turbulent era through Full Swing — the moment the LIV news broke at Riviera, the Delaware meeting where Rory and Tiger rallied the players, the Keegan Bradley Ryder Cup scene that became one of the most watched moments in the show's history, and what it felt like to ride in the car with Matt Fitzpatrick the day he won his first major at Brookline. This is a conversation about where professional golf is headed — and whether Bryson DeChambeau is a glimpse of that future or a cautionary tale about leverage without a landing spot. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.