And, as usual, the ledes get buried again in the NFL gambling probe...

Well, there's the four more names, including, as we all knew a couple weeks ago, Isaiah Rodgers of the Colts.

That said, I have a number of points that I think need to be raised here:

• What's going to happen when a relevant player on a relevant team gets swept up in this?  We got closest in this round with Nicholas Petit-Frere of the Titans, a starting offensive lineman last year who is banned six games, but only for that he was not betting on the NFL while betting on team property.  It's clear to anyone with an IQ above Republican that there are big names and big money being illegally bet under the NFL rules.  In fact, just a few days ago, one player was rumored to have lost $8,000,000 in bets.
• The Titans are the first fringe-relevant team to be implicated, with the Lions (more on them in a second), Cardinals, Falcons, Colts, and Commanders also on the list.
• Speaking of the Lions, that is now the fifth Detroit Lions player from the 2022 season banned, three of them given the "life ban" (minimum one year, reinstatement through the NFL).  When is someone with legal and league power -- ANYONE -- going to investigate the 2022-23 Lions season and those five one-score losses (the first four in a 1-6 start!) for match-fixing?  That's five players and how many staffers, in a season in which there was a pattern of the Lions losing these types of games, especially early in the season.  This REEKS match-fixing.
• Perhaps here's one reason they don't:  Would a full exposition of the problem of player gambling actually lead to the admission of several situations the NFL would much rather keep quiet?  I'll give you three:
• We know the generic NFL and sports fan is opening up to the concept that the games are rigged.  They may not believe it to the extent people such as myself believe, but it does raise a significant question:  How many NFL players are actually playing the games with either the belief or knowledge that they are rigged contests, in the spirit of professional wrestling?  (And acting commensurate to that belief.)  
• The second would actually raise the question of the court precedents set out which give the leagues the power they has (ab)used over the last 30-odd years.  Would an exposition of the true lack of integrity of NFL contests -- understood by the NFL players -- result in a re-examination or even reversal of decisions like Mayer v. Belichick, Patriots, and NFL?  
• And then the question I gave above:  What happens when it IS someone who has played meaningful downs on a Super Bowl contender or otherwise similarly-relevant team?  Most of the teams currently implicated, even if they are near the playoffs, are not and never have been seen as real contenders in this era.  What happens when that changes?