Nightcap Hour 3: Cardinals Exec Ryan Gold APPEALING INDEFINITE Suspension + BIG3 RECAP

**Shannon Sharpe** (0:00)
Cardinals, personnel executive Ryan Gold is appealing his indefinite suspension for violating the NFL gambling policy. NFL said its investigation terminated that Gold provided confidential, non-public inside information regarding the 2026 draft selection by the Cardinals before the picks were announced, and that Gold also participated in parlay bets on NFL in college games. Gold attorney claims the gambling activity was Gold's wife making $10 weekly bets with a group of high school friends on a parlay and that Gold was not involved. Wow! He put that on the wifey?
He put that on wifey?

**Chad Johnson** (0:42)
Hey y'all, and he already know better, man. You already know better. You have enough players that have gotten in trouble as gambling players.
Just last year at that, and here you go thinking you're exempt from the rules. Knowing that they follow YouTube based on emails, based on phone numbers, they know everything that's going on, man. Coaches, players, they know everything. I don't know why you even try it.

**Shannon Sharpe** (1:09)
Joe, Ocho, if I'm in the MLB, I'm in the NBA, if I'm in a professional league, my wife, ain't nobody, because guess what happens, is coming back to who? You.

**Chad Johnson** (1:27)
Every time.

**Shannon Sharpe** (1:28)
Why would your wife even put you in that situation? Why would your wife, knowing who you are, this is the NFL. Y'all, please spare us with this, but you want to gavel it. I'm not an NFL player. Ochocinco is not an NFL player. Joe is not. We former. So if we wanted to bet, we could. As an executive of a professional team, I don't know why your wife would even do that.
I would even help my sister. I would even help my homeboys in the pit, because I was a current player. You know you can't do that. And then the wife. I'm not saying women don't gamble, but the most, a weekly parlay.
Bro, good luck getting out of that. Good luck. Cause guess what? Because this saying, what it's saying, provided confidential, non-public inside information regarding 2026 draft selection by the Cardinals before the picks were announced.

**Chad Johnson** (2:38)
Now, who's the only person that would know that?

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:41)
Somebody got snapped, got pinched. Where you get that information from?
You do realize, when was the last time you seen somebody hold up a perch? Now, when the last time you heard of somebody hold up a marlin? A tuna or a shark? Bro, you're NFL. You know what the NFL trying to do as far as cleaning up gambling.

**Iso Joe Johnson** (3:23)
Hey, Peter Paul.

**Shannon Sharpe** (3:23)
I hope, I hope, I hope, I hope this man ain't put his career on the line or his wife put this man in harm's way for $10 weekly parlays. I hope the reports are, this is an alleged, but I hope, I pray, this man did not, his man's wife did not put this man's career in harm's way for $10. Joe Ochocinco, I hope that's not the case.

**Chad Johnson** (3:55)
I wonder what that payout look like.

**Iso Joe Johnson** (3:58)
You wonder what they pay?

**Shannon Sharpe** (4:00)
Unless you got a 15, 20 pick parlay, and $10 ain't payin out nothing.
How many picks you makin? Now you see somebody can take a $20 and they might have a 50 pick parlay. You hit them all, you win a million five. But you gotta pick, okay, the Dodgers gonna win the World Series, the Cincinnati Bengals gonna win the Super Bowl, Miami Heat gonna win the NBA Championship. You gotta pick all that. This team's gonna win, this guy's gonna win the MVP. This team's gonna win the hockey.
You got it. I just.

**Chad Johnson** (4:49)
Hey, he didn't got suspended indefinitely.
I'm not sure what the appeal can do. All the appeal does, it makes it even worse.

**Shannon Sharpe** (4:57)
Guess who you're peeling it to?

**Chad Johnson** (4:59)
Now, he really gonna do some digging.

**Shannon Sharpe** (5:02)
Who are you peeling it to?

**Chad Johnson** (5:04)
The NFL.

**Shannon Sharpe** (5:08)
Just imagine, I get a speeding ticket, but I'm gonna go appeal it to the chief of police. It was his damn department that gave me the damn ticket.

**Chad Johnson** (5:18)
Yeah, that's a good one.

**Shannon Sharpe** (5:20)
Why am I wasting my time taking my black ass? That's why you have independent. That's why you have somebody that issued a ticket to charge you with a crime and then somebody else to hear them when you go to court.
I sure, I, Chad, I pray and I hope this man's wife didn't potentially put this man in harm's way playing a weekly parlay.