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The surprise speaker at Eagles’ seminar on NFL gambling rules originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia
Every summer, all NFL teams gather their players together for a meeting about the NFL’s gambling policy.
What’s allowed? What’s not allowed? What will get you in trouble? What will get you suspended?
This year’s presentation was a little different. Because the Eagles had a special guest speaker.
Isaiah Rodgers.
Rodgers lost his entire 2023 season after the NFL suspended him for placing bets at the Colts’ facility, including bets on NFL games. Rodgers said he placed the bets for friends and family in Florida, where online gambling is prohibited.
Rodgers is now with the Eagles and who could possibly be better qualified to speak to his teammates about the NFL’s gambling policy?
“He told his story and it was something so little that you never would think could be so big,” Devin White said after practice Monday. “He basically just told everybody his story, what happened, and just let everybody know it wasn’t worth it. That was pretty — I don’t say it was cool because you don’t want anybody to go through that.
“He’s a high character guy, and he’s a guy that’s not ashamed of his situation. He took it on the chin, and he suffered his consequences and he fought his way back and he’s doing a great job with it.”
You better believe the message got through to Rodgers’ Eagles teammates.
“Just having an offender of that situation, the gambling policy, in the building, you can learn from that,” White said. “And I bet you he studied all the do’s and don’ts, and he probably knows them like a book because … there’s some things you can do, but it’s the small fine detail that you can’t do, and that’s how easily it can happen.”
The Eagles got Rodgers for relatively nothing – one year, $1.055 million, exactly minimum wage for a player with three years of pension credit.
And all he’s done since signing here is show zero rust and move into the lead in a…
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Publish date : 2024-08-05 21:22:41
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