PFTPM: Lloyd Howell resigns; T.J. Watt's new deal and how it impacts Micah Parsons; Rashee Rice sentenced for Dallas hit-and-run
PFT Live with Mike Florio
Mike Florio
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🗓️ 18 July 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
1:40 --- NFLPA Executive Director Lloyd Howell resigns
4:10 --- What’s next for the NFLPA
11:30 --- T.J. Watt’s new deal
15:25 --- How Watt’s new deal impacts Micah Parson’s next contract
17:20 --- Rashee Rice sentenced for Dallas hit-and-run incident
21:35 --- MAILBAG
21:40 --- What should be non-negotiable for the players in the next CBA?
23:25 --- Is this the end of the NFL? Are players getting too much power?
24:30 --- What’s the first thing he’d push for if Florio became head of the NFLPA?
27:40 --- Could C.J. Stroud or Lamar Jackson holding out for fully guaranteed contracts force the hand of owners
29:45 --- How can NFL get away with having select games on paid streaming services?
31:45 --- Does Florio miss practicing law?
35:40 --- When will PFT be back on Sky?
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| 0:00.0 | Friday, July 18 edition of PFT, by the way, this is take two. I had gotten started. I had a power outage, |
| 0:16.6 | and in lieu of picking up wherever the power went out, let's just do it all over again. |
| 0:22.5 | It can't be any worse this time. |
| 0:24.6 | There's a chance it may be even better. |
| 0:27.4 | And this is the slow time. |
| 0:29.0 | We're creeping closer and closer to the return of football. |
| 0:31.5 | The slow time has not been slow. |
| 0:33.1 | And one of the big reasons, the slow time has not been slow, the National Football League, |
| 0:43.6 | Players Association. Now, those of you who watched PFT Live the Friday of Memorial Day weekend, Michael Hawley and I were discussing something. And I remembered the collusion grievance |
| 0:50.2 | ruling that had been successfully hidden by the NFL and the NFL Players Association. |
| 0:54.7 | And I became determined at that point that I was going to smoke that thing out. |
| 1:00.4 | And ultimately, collaboration with Pablo Torre, he's the one that found the document. |
| 1:06.4 | He's the one that published the document. |
| 1:08.0 | We worked together. |
| 1:09.4 | We pushed each other, challenged each other, |
| 1:11.8 | and we found out things they don't want us to know. That's the only time actual journalism |
| 1:16.2 | happens in sports media when you find out things that they don't want you to know. |
| 1:22.9 | So with a follow-up on Thursday that found another grievance that had been hidden after the ruling was issued in February. |
| 1:32.1 | And other things regarding Lloyd Howell's conflict of interest, the laughable cartoonish effort to both run the NFL Players Association and work as a paid consultant for a private equity fund that is on the short |
| 1:44.9 | list of funds that it's ridiculous. |
| 1:49.6 | Anyway, the storm clouds got to the point where Lloyd Howell resigned last night as the NFLPA |
| 1:56.2 | executive director. |
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