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The pittsburgh steelers, officialing kicking off the start of the nfl season. the big question, of course, will star quarterback tom brady be playing in that big game or will what's his name, rachel? >> jimmy garoppolo. >> jimmy garoppolo. at any moment a federal judge could hand down a ruling after brady and the nfl failed to reach a settlement in court on monday. even if his four-game suspension is overturned, the fight might not be over. let's talk about this with rachel nichols and former linebacker for the falcons, chris draft. welcome to both of you. >> yesterday they were in court. when...

She's done is good and leave it at that and give her sop propme. >> i want to get to this movie starring will smith. it's about concussions in the nfl and i saw the trailer the other day, and, frankly, i was impressed. let's watch that. >> i found a disease that no one has ever seen. repetitive head trauma chokes the brain. >> the nfl does not want to talk to you. you've turned on the lights and gave their biggest bogeyman a name. you're going to war with a corporation that owns a day of the week. >> no proof was presented today because there simply isn't any. >> you have no idea how bad this ...

Many times do you hear somebody gets suspended for 40 games? in basketball how many times do you hear somebody gets suspended for 20 games. if he's suspended for four games, that's a quarter of his salary gone. >> nearly $2 million. >> go ahead, chris. >> so basically whatever he can do to try to recover that amount of money, and then also recover his image because his image based on how this thing works out will really -- that's his legacy. his legacy -- he's won four super bowls. he's tremendous, been to six super bowls. those things are real, but with this going on right now, it really kind...

Then this would be over. that word is very exciting to call of us who had followed deflategate but that was not to be. the judge decreed yesterday afternoon he would make a ruling. it is going to come as you said any moment, could be today, could be tomorrow. the problem is because they haven't settled, because this is going to be a judge's ruling, whoever loses, they can appeal, carol. >> okay. so, chris, i'm putting you in the hot seat. what's your prediction? will tom brady be the winner or will roger goodell? >> that's a hard -- who is the winner in something like this? both sides are alre...

People who are in solidarity with people who think the police could be handling things better in minority communities, not a big surprise. >> well, the nfl is dealing with enough controversy right now. >> and the nfl doesn't really respond well to threats and if you look at that whole statement there are some threats at the end of that saying they're going to rally advertisers and the nfl is a big successful organization as we have seen and they don't take kindly to being threatened publicly so i wouldn't expect them to crumbable in the face of this statement. interesting conversation. chris...