Mike Florio

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.

Other owners have done that.

And my understanding is it's a loud minority of owners who hate these report cards, who don't appreciate the feedback, who resent the employees complaining about work conditions that mobilized to get this thing not killed, but at least muzzled

in a way that ultimately won't be effective.

So yeah, I think that any responsible employer would want to know, what can we do better?

How can we take better care of you?

I use the metaphor all the time.

Every football player on every NFL team is a piece in a football machine that is eventually going to be replaced with a new piece.

But that doesn't mean that the players should not be treated as human beings, that they should be given proper treatment, that their families should have proper treatment.

That's one of the categories how teams treat the families of the players.

And you're going to have good teams, you're going to have bad teams.

And the bad teams tend to stay bad.

And the dysfunction starts at the top.

And it's the owners of those teams that don't want to be publicly shamed into trying to spend more money or view their players differently than they do.

Well, now I know what I'm going to be doing for an hour this afternoon because I haven't seen that podcast yet.

Oh, okay.

I will be checking it out.