NFL and Players Negotiate: What's at Stake

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🗓️ 27 February 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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The NFL owners have drafted a new labor agreement for players that adds a 17th game to the NFL season, expands the playoffs and raises player pay and other benefits. NFL Players Association representatives have now sent the CBA for a majority vote to all the union members. ESPN analyst and former NFLPA negotiator Domonique Foxworth joins the show to explain what's at stake, who's for the agreement and who's not, and what a 17th game means to both sides. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Man, the s' so crazy, man.
0:03.5	I vote no.
0:05.7	The NFLPA, the dudes at the top, the leaders,
0:08.6	man, they ain't looking out for the best of the players.
0:12.6	If y'all want my vote, the Pousy Twins vote, no.
0:15.4	And if any player, any one of our teams,
0:18.1	if y'all heard for rent money or anything why we go through this, like I call us.
0:24.6	That was Steelers' Center Marquis Pouncey, giving his thoughts on the proposed collective
0:30.5	bargaining agreement.
0:32.1	On Wednesday, the league's union representatives sent the deal to the players for a vote.
0:37.5	It would lengthen the season to 17 games, expand the playoffs, and boost minimum salaries.
0:44.0	But, as you just heard, not everybody is happy.
0:48.2	Today, why the players are divided on the deal and how football as we know it may never be the same.
0:55.7	I'm Mina Kimes. It's Thursday, February 27th. This is ESPN Daily, presented by ADT.
1:05.6	Hey, Dominique. Hi, Mina. So Dominique, normally I record a quick line later where I say something like Dominic
1:14.8	Foxworth is an NFL analyst for ESPN.
1:17.3	But given what we're talking about today, I feel that it is worth taking the time to ask
1:22.0	you to explain to everyone what you did in your previous life before becoming my colleague.
1:27.6	Okay, so I was president of the Players Association of the NFL.
1:31.6	I was on executive committee of the NFLPA during the last CBA negotiations.
1:37.1	I was at all the negotiation sessions.
1:39.0	So I know a little bit about the CBA stuff.
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