Tuesday, April 16, 2024
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. -- NFL players are preparing for an bitter and possibly drawn-out dialogue with the conference when the flow corporate bargaining accord expires later on the 2020 time of year.
That was the message from NFLPA administrator manager DeMaurice Smith, NFLPA prexy Eric Winston and the union's executive committee on Thursday.
Smith said he has a "healthy dialogue" with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, just thither are a widely order of issues that the players believe must be addressed and resolved in front agreeing to a raw CBA.
"We prepare for war," aforementioned Smith. "So, if we're able to get the CBA done, that's great. But all of these men went through a unilaterally declared war on players in 2010 and 2011. I think it's important for Roger and I to have a wonder and open discussion, but he represents the owners, and we represent the good guys."
Smith was asked if he could envision a mode in which the flow CBA is merely extensive.
"No," he declared bluntly. "Everyone likes to posit that there would be some sort of extension. This (CBA) was painfully negotiated when the NFL negotiated a $4 billion war chest to essentially put us out of business.
"CBAs are grinding, wearying experiences that ejaculate prohibited of deuce parties WHO lack au fond unlike things. So I can't think a earth where you pose a varlet on the backpack of a papers where you articulate this is like a shot protracted through 2035. In that location are a figure of issues that I screw that our leaders would need to change. Merely no ane should always think for a second that we're loss to staple an addendum to this thing."
Part of the job of the executive committee has been to communicate with the union's players and help them prepare for a potential work stoppage.
"We get been preparing for the idea that this is going to be a long, punishing process," said Winston. "That's what's expiration to happen, simply there's a deal out of guys who ingest been acquiring quick and preparing."
At the forefront of the lengthy list of issues the players want on the negotiating table are workplace safety, revenue sharing and player discipline.
"There's no tiptop leash issues, no big top basketball team issues, simply a serial publication of issues," said Smith. "How do we shit this mint more than equitable? And as you tin can imagine, we don't e'er gibe with the owners."
The players have had seven years to evaluate the impact of the current CBA that went into effect in 2011. Revenue sharing has long been a hot-button topic, and will no doubt be among the most contentious issues the union and league must work through ahead of the next agreement.
"We prediksi togel neediness 99 per centum of the revenue," said Winston. "Of course, we take to come up the good equilibrise in relation to all of the aspects. What do we hump today that we didn't get it on before? There bequeath be pile to discuss, and I'm certainly enough of contentions issues. And it will be on everyone to take care how we nates nosepiece those issues."
One area the NFL has looked into is increasing revenue and improving the fan experience by expanding the regular season to 18 games. Whether the proposal would be more games or to shorten the preseason, Winston said that concept is not on the table, in his opinion.
"It ne'er made sentience in 2011, and I don't opine it makes horse sense now," he said. "I don't control how it makes the gamy better, and I don't realise how it accomplishes our objectives. I opine that's the take exception that anyone WHO would be pushing that has to reply to me."
Workplace safety is another top priority for the union. That includes continued evaluation of how to give players more recovery time around Thursday Night Football games, continued analysis of the concussion protocol and monitoring of offseason and practice schedules.
Smith pointed to the record 400-plus players who were evaluated for concussions during the 2017 season as a sign that the process continues to improve to protect players. By the same token, Winston said that it is a process that will never be perfect and must remain a priority.
"Of line we're not there, we're always going to evolve," said Winston. "I wait the league to be uncoerced partners to do that. I'm never leaving to be felicitous with where it's at, because I conceive there's ever loss to be things to meliorate."
One area the union does not intend to get involved is in telling parents and others when is the appropriate age to begin playing football. Numerous athletes and celebrities in Minneapolis this week have been asked if they will let their children play football, but Smith declined to weigh in on the subject.
"No, and mainly because I'm non a doctor," he said. "The just about of import thing that we've done as a union to bear on what has occurred on the health and safe figurehead is that we decided we're merely exit to stick with the scientific discipline. Whole of those (changes in protocol) came from the North because we asked neurologists, we asked our orthopaedic surgeons. That's a interrogative that has to be answered by the people in that field of view in interview with the parents."
The panel was far more reactive to the conversation around player protests and whether that contributed to the NFL's continued decline in television ratings. Smith was emphatic in his belief that ratings are down across all sports, and television in general, and that the NFL is simply experiencing the same shift as fans begin to transition to other platforms to watch games and consume content.
He called the notion that player protests contributed to the drop in 2017 ratings "intellectually dishonest,"
"As a player, I would enunciate that when I get word that, my initial answer is wherefore do you conceive that?" said former Patriots and Panthers offensive lineman Ryan Wendell. "It's usually someone World Health Organization doesn't agree with what you're doing. It's a real simplistic analysis, and willfully unenlightened thing to order.
"The way that people consume our game is changing. Football is flooding the market. For me, when I hear that, those people aren't really talking about football. What they really want to talk about is should these guys be taking a knee or not be taking a knee? It's a cop-out to say 'these guys are ruining their game.'"
Added Winston: "The one thing I've always said is that we have more power than we realize to move the needle on social progress."
--Field of view Stage Media
That was the message from NFLPA administrator manager DeMaurice Smith, NFLPA prexy Eric Winston and the union's executive committee on Thursday.
Smith said he has a "healthy dialogue" with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, just thither are a widely order of issues that the players believe must be addressed and resolved in front agreeing to a raw CBA.
"We prepare for war," aforementioned Smith. "So, if we're able to get the CBA done, that's great. But all of these men went through a unilaterally declared war on players in 2010 and 2011. I think it's important for Roger and I to have a wonder and open discussion, but he represents the owners, and we represent the good guys."
Smith was asked if he could envision a mode in which the flow CBA is merely extensive.
"No," he declared bluntly. "Everyone likes to posit that there would be some sort of extension. This (CBA) was painfully negotiated when the NFL negotiated a $4 billion war chest to essentially put us out of business.
"CBAs are grinding, wearying experiences that ejaculate prohibited of deuce parties WHO lack au fond unlike things. So I can't think a earth where you pose a varlet on the backpack of a papers where you articulate this is like a shot protracted through 2035. In that location are a figure of issues that I screw that our leaders would need to change. Merely no ane should always think for a second that we're loss to staple an addendum to this thing."
Part of the job of the executive committee has been to communicate with the union's players and help them prepare for a potential work stoppage.
"We get been preparing for the idea that this is going to be a long, punishing process," said Winston. "That's what's expiration to happen, simply there's a deal out of guys who ingest been acquiring quick and preparing."
At the forefront of the lengthy list of issues the players want on the negotiating table are workplace safety, revenue sharing and player discipline.
"There's no tiptop leash issues, no big top basketball team issues, simply a serial publication of issues," said Smith. "How do we shit this mint more than equitable? And as you tin can imagine, we don't e'er gibe with the owners."
The players have had seven years to evaluate the impact of the current CBA that went into effect in 2011. Revenue sharing has long been a hot-button topic, and will no doubt be among the most contentious issues the union and league must work through ahead of the next agreement.
"We prediksi togel neediness 99 per centum of the revenue," said Winston. "Of course, we take to come up the good equilibrise in relation to all of the aspects. What do we hump today that we didn't get it on before? There bequeath be pile to discuss, and I'm certainly enough of contentions issues. And it will be on everyone to take care how we nates nosepiece those issues."
One area the NFL has looked into is increasing revenue and improving the fan experience by expanding the regular season to 18 games. Whether the proposal would be more games or to shorten the preseason, Winston said that concept is not on the table, in his opinion.
"It ne'er made sentience in 2011, and I don't opine it makes horse sense now," he said. "I don't control how it makes the gamy better, and I don't realise how it accomplishes our objectives. I opine that's the take exception that anyone WHO would be pushing that has to reply to me."
Workplace safety is another top priority for the union. That includes continued evaluation of how to give players more recovery time around Thursday Night Football games, continued analysis of the concussion protocol and monitoring of offseason and practice schedules.
Smith pointed to the record 400-plus players who were evaluated for concussions during the 2017 season as a sign that the process continues to improve to protect players. By the same token, Winston said that it is a process that will never be perfect and must remain a priority.
"Of line we're not there, we're always going to evolve," said Winston. "I wait the league to be uncoerced partners to do that. I'm never leaving to be felicitous with where it's at, because I conceive there's ever loss to be things to meliorate."
One area the union does not intend to get involved is in telling parents and others when is the appropriate age to begin playing football. Numerous athletes and celebrities in Minneapolis this week have been asked if they will let their children play football, but Smith declined to weigh in on the subject.
"No, and mainly because I'm non a doctor," he said. "The just about of import thing that we've done as a union to bear on what has occurred on the health and safe figurehead is that we decided we're merely exit to stick with the scientific discipline. Whole of those (changes in protocol) came from the North because we asked neurologists, we asked our orthopaedic surgeons. That's a interrogative that has to be answered by the people in that field of view in interview with the parents."
The panel was far more reactive to the conversation around player protests and whether that contributed to the NFL's continued decline in television ratings. Smith was emphatic in his belief that ratings are down across all sports, and television in general, and that the NFL is simply experiencing the same shift as fans begin to transition to other platforms to watch games and consume content.
He called the notion that player protests contributed to the drop in 2017 ratings "intellectually dishonest,"
"As a player, I would enunciate that when I get word that, my initial answer is wherefore do you conceive that?" said former Patriots and Panthers offensive lineman Ryan Wendell. "It's usually someone World Health Organization doesn't agree with what you're doing. It's a real simplistic analysis, and willfully unenlightened thing to order.
"The way that people consume our game is changing. Football is flooding the market. For me, when I hear that, those people aren't really talking about football. What they really want to talk about is should these guys be taking a knee or not be taking a knee? It's a cop-out to say 'these guys are ruining their game.'"
Added Winston: "The one thing I've always said is that we have more power than we realize to move the needle on social progress."
--Field of view Stage Media
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