Mike Florio

So that two week period can be very useful as it relates to the current team getting the information necessary to make a final decision.

Yeah, this is the ultimate Wile E. Coyote Roadrunner moment where the coyote thinks he's won and that stick of dynamite blows up in his face.

And it was funny to see how the NFL crowed about this.

They sent out a memo on Friday.

They created the impression that they'd successfully defeated the whole process, that there would be no report cards.

It became clear right away, and I've read the whole opinion,

The union is allowed to make them, and the union is allowed to make that information available to its 2,000 members.

Do we really think that none of 2,000 players will find a way to get that information to a reporter?

And it'll probably go like this.

They'll find a way to get it to their agent, the agent will find a way to get it to the reporter, and it'll all be out there.

And it creates a greater incentive.

You know, when we...

are told we're not allowed to see something.

If we previously weren't interested in seeing it, we now are because somebody wants us to not see it.

There must be something good there.

So they already generated plenty of interest as it was before the NFL won this hollow victory that the report cards can't be published.

Now that we all know they don't want us to see them, I know we're going to be more motivated to find them, to cover them, to put the stuff out there that the owners don't want out there.

It is kind of ridiculous that the owners are so thin-skinned that they don't want feedback from their players to be published.

But it's just an example of how NFL owners have created a world where they have no accountability whatsoever, which makes them loathe any accountability that they may endure.

Well, the teams that get it, like the Broncos, they saw the criticisms in the report card and they made changes.