Mike Florio

And for some teams, and look, they have a two-week window for this.

Now, there's a chance someone is going to get tagged by Friday, so it sends the message when everyone goes to Indianapolis next week for the scouting combine where tampering is rampant, don't waste your time trying to put ideas in the head of this guy's agent about what's out there because he's been tagged.

But in some situations, it can be valuable because, you know, the Bears will get wind of what may be out there for Bayard if he becomes a free agent, and that could be enough to get them to say, you know what, you know what,

We'd rather tag him because we think somebody else is going to sign him if he hits the open market.

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.