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Report: Colin Kaepernick Excluded From Player-Owner Meetings
Despite certain NFL players proposing meetings that include him, and an NFL spokesperson indicating last week that he expected an invitation to be extended, Colin Kaepernick is being frozen out of meetings on social justice between the NFLPA and NFL owners, according to a report from Slate....
Jerry Jones Mad At The System He Helped Create
Cowboys owner and NFL shadow commissioner Jerry Jones isn’t happy that a federal appeals court vacated Ezekiel Elliott’s injunction, thus clearing the way for the running back’s six-game suspension. Jones’s mood is to be expected, but—surprise!—he also isn’t happy about the extrajudicial process tha...
Judge Blocks Ezekiel Elliott's Suspension, Calls NFL's Investigation "Fundamentally Unfair"
United States District Court Judge Amos Mazzant ruled today in favor of Ezekiel Elliott, granting him a preliminary injunction against the NFL. It means that the Cowboys running back’s six-game suspension is blocked, at least for now....
What's Going On With The Ezekiel Elliott Case, And What Happens Next?
If you’ve been following the Ezekiel Elliott saga—strap in, as this case has by now crossed the “saga” threshold—you might be a bit confused as to what the flying fuck is going on....
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The NFL Seems To Have Punished Ezekiel Elliott For Not Cooperating With Its Investigation [Updated]
The NFL’s decision to suspend Ezekiel Elliott for six games appears to have been based less on allegations that Elliott physically assaulted his ex-girlfriend than on what the league perceived as his lack of cooperation with its year-long investigation, according to hearing transcripts made public i...
NFLPA Head: Future Work Stoppage "Almost A Virtual Certainty"
Four years ahead of the expiration of the NFL’s collective bargaining agreement with its players, NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith says the two sides are already headed for “small-A armageddon,” whether that be a lockout or a strike. Here’s a brief video from an interview Smith did with The ...
The NFL Set Itself Up For This
No matter what the NFL does, it devolves into a bunch of dudes arguing about whether or not a woman is a liar. It happened with Janay Rice. It happened with Nicole Holder. It happened with Molly Brown. And it’s happening now. The best case for the NFL just packing up and admitting, “We have no clue ...
Q&A: NFLPA President Eric Winston On Work Stoppages, Colin Kaepernick, And "The NFL Police"
The current collective bargaining agreement between the NFL and its players’ union runs through the 2020 season. But even with training camps in full swing and the focus turning to FOOTBAW, there are still a number of labor-management issues percolating behind the scenes. Deadspin recently spoke to ...
Unsealed Emails Show NFL Team Docs Turning On Each Other Under DEA Pressure<em></em>
Last month, a federal judge struck down what was left of a class-action lawsuit that accused NFL teams of pumping ex-players full of dangerous painkillers, to the detriment of the long-term health of those players. The July 21 ruling, by Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District Court of Northern Cal...
The NFLPA Found A Fight To Pick With The NFL
Stop me if you’ve heard this sort of thing before, but the NFL is trying to screw over players with contract language. The difference this time is that the NFLPA has flagged the league’s efforts as actual violations of the collective bargaining agreement....
NFL Teams Have A New Way To Avoid Paying Players Guaranteed Money
Every time you think NFL teams have exhausted every avenue in their never-ending quest to keep from paying players their contractually obligated money, they go ahead and change the definition of “guaranteed.”...
The NFLPA Finally Seems Ready To Tackle Its Aversion To Medical Marijuana
With Roger Goodell in full-on Reefer Madness mode, the NFLPA is working on a way to get the NFL to do something about its marijuana prohibition without making a major concession at the bargaining table. ...
The NFL's Gambling Policy Is A Mess
Last weekend’s news that the NFL is considering disciplinary action against a group of players who took part in a charity arm-wrestling event at a Las Vegas casino has brought renewed attention to the league’s policy on gambling. And it’s hard not to notice how much of that policy is just the NFL co...
NFL Relocation Fees Are Revenues The Players Will Never Touch<em></em>
NFL owners are poised to rake in a fortune from the recent franchise relocations of the Rams, Chargers, and Raiders. Those owners naturally won’t be sharing a penny from that windfall with the players....
Why NFL Owners Won't End Marijuana Testing Even Though They Don't Want It Anymore
One other fascinating item about the NFL’s recent owners-only meeting that Mike Florio detailed last weekend over at Pro Football Talk: Cowboys owner Jerry Jones—who seems to have more pull than anyone in the NFL these days—wants the league to be more chill about testing players for marijuana. But e...
Report: The NFLPA Already Has Problems With Tom Coughlin
Tom Coughlin, the Jaguars’ new executive vice president of football operations, has been brought into Jacksonville to try and turn the Jaguars into a competent football team. That means he’s bringing back all the principles of the Red-Faced Old Man management he developed in New York, and according ...
Contracts That Void Themselves, And Other Ways NFL Teams Are Beating The Players
NFL teams use all sorts of contractual techniques to limit the earning power of players, from injury splits to per-game roster bonuses to an abundance of one-year “prove it” deals. But there’s nothing quite as breathtaking as NFL contracts that automatically void—contract language that literally mak...
Oh, Cool, The NFL Is Trying To Kill One More Vestige Of Weirdness
The NFL’s determination to erase fun from its sport isn’t limited to its staid distribution of training videos for touchdown dances. The Washington Post and ESPN have reported that the league’s competition committee is also set to consider a proposal to ban leaping over the line of scrimmage on extr...
Lawsuit: DEA Warnings Didn't Stop NFL Doctors From Repeatedly Breaking Federal Drug Law<em></em><em></em>
An exhibit attached to a lawsuit filed by former players against the 32 NFL teams in federal court in San Francisco contains a log appearing to show audited instances of NFL teams traveling with controlled substances in violation of federal regulations....
Who's Getting What Now? NFL Free Agency For Dummies
If you’re an NFL fan paying attention to free-agency news, you’ve likely been inundated all week with breathless reports of interest and consideration and the occasional chatter about monster deals. (Monster!) You’re also probably seeing a lot of financial figures getting tossed around, and many of ...