Yes, sir, yes sir. Welcome to the Yahoo Sports NFL Podcast. I am Yahoo, C.U. NFL writer Torres-Peler.

Here are my main man and fellow senior

United States writer Charles Robinson.

And Charles, my man, how freaked out are you about the NFL season starting on time?

I have concerns. I have some deep concerns at this stage.

And guess what? People were talking to have them too.

Yes, yeah. Players have deep concerns.

I mean, this is something that executives were, you know, the July 28th reporting date is less than three weeks away.

There are a lot of very large details that have not been worked out.

You know, it's funny because we're getting a lot of the little small stuff you know hey don't exchange jerseys after games who okay we get it but you know hey don't don't spend all this time congregating and

talking after the game like we get all the I understand that you're controlling what you

can control right now but the broad strokes of the testing really not being completely sorted between the

NFL and the NFL PA is troublesome, less, again, less than three weeks out.

The fact that the NFL PA, the union, had a phone call with players

and there was a litany of concern amongst players about playing preseason games.

It's clear they don't want to play preseason games.

The union's board voted not to play preseason games.

J.J. Watt has now spoken up twice. He spoke out, you know, once during that call with the union.

He's now spoken out publicly saying like hey you know we

don't have to make this reporting date if everything's not in line here like if there are

problems we need to just back away from that. And the point is if we miss the reporting date, the season probably isn't going to start on time. So I think everything now is real for all these players. I think everything's now real for all these executives

and coaches and they're all looking at this going,

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