Would the NFL players be better off without a union? | 2/21 #1

PFT Live with Mike Florio

Mike Florio

Sports

4.3 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Florio breaks down every angle of the possible proposed CBA, including what happens if the players tell the owners to go pound sand and reject the proposal. Plus, what if the players disbanded their union and challenged the NFL in court?

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0:00.0	Before we roll the audio on this PFT log podcast, we want you to know that Mike Florio does an afternoon podcast.
0:07.3	Why?
0:07.8	To catch all the late breaking news and developing stories in the NFL, of course.
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0:21.1	Boom, done.
0:22.3	Thanks for the support.
0:23.4	Now, stats.
0:24.4	Another hour of the PFT Live podcast.
0:28.0	It's Friday.
0:28.7	It's PFT Live and it is anything but an ordinary day in the off season.
0:33.8	Not just because the scouting combine is coming.
0:35.6	Oh no.
0:36.1	Oh no.
0:39.2	Yesterday, the pedal was placed to the medal as it relates to the NFL's effort to get a new
0:45.3	CBA in place. Now, part of the problem for the league and the union, although right now things are set up pretty
0:59.5	nicely for the league, the way they've handled there's more on that in a second, but so much
1:03.4	has been happening behind the scenes for months. The parties have been negotiating for months.
1:11.6	And when the stories started to emerge several weeks ago that the players would be getting together to have discussions about a CBA premised on a 17-game season,
1:23.8	the media didn't do a good enough job of explaining what actually had gotten things to that point.
1:32.0	And I'm not trying to be critical here, my colleagues in the media, but I was banging the drum to make sure people understood exactly what was going on.
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