Hey there, boys and girls. Welcome to another edition of The Business of Sports with Andrew Brandt.

I'm Andrew Brand. I'm going to talk about the potential collective bargaining agreement between the NFL and the NFL players today.

You're getting a lot of questions about it, obviously doing a lot of radio, doing a lot of requests to talk about it.

And some of those requests are coming in from both the management side negotiating this deal and the player side.

So I just thought I put it out here on the podcast to give my thoughts.

And it's much more nuanced than good or good deal or bad deal.

So I thought I put it out here on the pod.

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Okay, let's talk about it.

So where we are, it's Monday, February 24th. As of last week, there was a summary out there. We have heard all the key terms of a proposed 10-year collective bargaining agreement. We've heard that ownership, the management side. And again, for people that don't understand, every negotiation in professional football and all sports, professional sports, you know, you're dealing with two different types of negotiations. One is a micro, which is the player contract represented by an agent against the team or with the team. And that, of course, happens every day, and there's hundreds of

those done every year. Then there is the macro negotiation between the union and management. So the union

is the NFL Players Association. Management is the league, who's ever negotiating for the league, a group

of owners including Clark Con, Robert Kraft, Jerry Jones, Mark Murphy, some of those. Okay.

The owners have put out there as of Thursday that there is a collective bargaining agreement

negotiated and they await the player ratification basically. And if it's

not, we'll just operate under what's going on, what's scheduled to go on the last year of the

existing CBA in 2020. And that's fine. But, you know, the NFL, they're very strategic. Their PR is like, well, you know, it's been negotiated for 10 months. It's like, we're ready. Let's go. And then, of course, NFL media, which I'll talk about in greater depth, talking about, you know, it's a good deal. And they've made a lot of concessions and not just the first offer here they've

been working on this for 10 months there's a lot for players to like blah blah blah okay

NFL media i get it that's your job to promote the NFL and to promote the fact that they put a

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