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Best of NFL News Part 1: LEAKED NFLPA report card NFL GM says Tyreek Hill isn't even worth the VET-MINIMUM
28 Feb 2026
Chapter 1: What are the key insights from the leaked NFLPA report card?
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Chapter 2: How did the Dolphins rank in the NFLPA report card?
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Chapter 3: What changes occurred in the rankings of NFL teams this year?
That button right here. Come for the sports, stay for the stories. While the NFL won the grievance against the NFL PA to prevent annual release of team's report card, it wasn't enough to stop the league. The Dolphins ranked number one in the report cards for the third consecutive year. According to the report, the Vikings ranked second.
The Commanders rattled out the top three after Commanders at one point in time was rated dead last. But the Steelers checked in for 32 for the first time in the report card's four-year history. The Steelers received low marks, especially facilities. Owner Art Rooney The third, I think, or the second. Okay, second, ranked last for willingness to invest in facilities.
No surprise, Steelers are cheap. Steelers locker room, which also had a failing grade. The Steelers ranked last by a wide margin on the field, highlighted by the need for more investment to increase the standard. Acroshore? Stadium grass turf was subject of a discussion after it was particularly torn up during week six between the Steelers and Browns. Ocho?
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Yes, sir.
NFL won the grievance. They're like, you can't release this because you're releasing this in bad faith and you're trying to make our team look bad. But why can't, but I'm just saying, you don't want the player's opinion? You got all these sites that have an opinion. They grade the players, which is third party. Yep.
And a lot of people base that, their grades and how they play players, on those grades. So a player that actually plays there to see it day to day, say, you know what? The training facility is not up to par. The craft services, which is the food, is not up to par. Right. The family, where the family resides, it's not up to par. I mean, I'm confused. Why, would you?
Yeah, listen, that's a good thing. And obviously, you think about it too, right? You think about the owners and what they choose to invest in. I mean, what's most important to them? Obviously, everything starts with the product.
Chapter 5: How does Tyreek Hill's value compare to the vet minimum?
The product you're putting on the field. Obviously, along with the product, you want to have the best services for said players to keep everyone healthy, strength and conditioning, nutrition, health. Some of the things that come to hand right away.
Obviously, outside of that, all the other amenities, I think most owners don't see as important as said players, which is why those that have bad grades, they have them for a reason. Ocho. Yes, sir.
The objective is to make as much money as I possibly can while spending. Talk to me. I look at ROI, which is return on investment. Investment, yes.
Chapter 6: What are the implications of the NFL GM's comments on Tyreek Hill?
I invest a little, I get maximum in return. If I upgrade my facilities, if I get a new weight room, if I give the facilities where families can come and the kids can come, that's money. I got to pay for that.
Talk to me now.
No, no, no, no, no, no. I want y'all in the same dilapidated facilities. Yes. I expect you to win. Yeah. While we get $400 million from TV revenue. Remember, the cap's only $305 million, so that's 95. You're 95. Mm-hmm. Already. You're 95 up. You haven't sold tickets. You haven't sold concession. You haven't sold parking. And you haven't sold merchandise. Yeah.
And you haven't sold local TV and broadcast. Right. You're 95. Now, okay, you pay your coaching staff. Let's just say for the sake of argument, Ocho, you all in on your coaching staff and $30 million. You still got 65 plus the five things that I just added. So at worst case scenario, you're probably coming home with 100 mil. Yeah. That's worst case.
Cowboys, you're probably coming home with 300 mil. Mm-hmm. But even the worst franchise is coming home with 100 mil after they pay all the players, after they pay other coaches, that's what you're coming home with.
Yep. I mean, that's always been the owner's mindset. That's always been the model for any business, especially an entity of this magnitude, ROI. Can I pay less but maximize more? Always. That's always been the model.
It is. Because guess what it is, Ocho? As we see food prices, where you go, these restaurants, where the prices are going up, guess what's not going up? The employees' wages. So while the prices goes up, we're going to make more, we pay them the same. See, that's how you do it.
It's been a business model for a very long time.
Somebody going to need the jobs. Yeah. Now, there are some jobs, and the people are like, well, why are they coming across here? Why are they coming? Because they're doing jobs you don't want to. All I know is when I'm driving side the road and I'm seeing people clean weeds and doing all that manual labor. Yes, sir. They don't really be looking like me. They don't be looking American to me.
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Chapter 7: What challenges does Tyreek Hill face after his injuries?
So that's when I'm like, I tell kids today, Ocho, work a lot of jobs because it'll let you know what you don't want to do when you get old. Because if you can't do it when you're young and vibrant, you damn sure not going to do that in your late 20s, your 30s, your 40s, and you damn sure not going to do it when you're in your 50s or 60s. Yeah.
So work some things, work, let you know what, man, ain't no way in hell I want to work 12, 14 hours a day. If I'm working 12, 14 hours as a kid, but a young adult, you're a teenager, you're in your early 20s. Nah, this ain't what I'm trying to do. This ain't what I'm trying to do. Now, everybody, hey, everybody's not going to be able to parlay and flip that into something more prosperous.
Yeah. I mean, you know what's funny too, Unc? Most of the time, you think about it, we all have to have a plan B. We all have our plan A. Our plan A is what we actually want to do. And the fact that I think about, let's say if football didn't work, if football didn't work out, You know, obviously, I still have the discipline understanding. I still have to make a living. I still have to eat.
Hold on. I still have kids. So I still would have the structure and discipline to go out and get a job. It might not be the one thing I want to do. It might not be the NFL. Yes. But even if it's not, I still have the ability to go and get a job. I don't see working as being beneath me. Absolutely not. I just don't because I had no choice but to do it growing up.
And I did it at places that people would somewhat frown upon. I ain't working at no fast food place. Well, hell, I started at McDonald's. Hell, I did Christmas season at a KB toy store.
That'd have been nice to work in their condition.
I work in the clothing store at Crenshaw Mall and Fox Hills Mall.
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Chapter 8: What factors influence player decisions regarding OTAs?
Men's land. I wonder if Sam's still there. Anybody in the chat that's from L.A., I mean, you know what I'm talking about. Man.
Six hours. They say they work six-hour shifts at restaurants.
Oh, that's not bad. That's not bad.
That's not bad. Well, here's the thing, though, Ocho. No, it's not bad. But when you're only making $10 an hour, man, let me get all them hours. Let me get 10, 12 hours.
I don't like that. I don't like the part. Now you get a better understanding is the shifts are so short and they don't make enough. Now you get a better understanding of why I've been tipping the way I do the past 20 years every time I go out. It's ridiculous.
Yeah, it's tough. And, you know, look, I understand because I've been there. I've been there. Been dirt poor. And, you know, you got to make ends meet. You know, we work. Me and my brother, we take half our money. You know, we got to buy school clothes. But we got to help granny pay bills. You know, light needs to be on. Telephone bill got to be paid. Gas bill got to be paid.
Sometimes we run short of money in the winter because we're not really working like that. Yeah. Ocho, hey, we got to pull that, hey, we got to open that fireplace up. Boys, your granny's short this month. We're going to have to use the fireplace. Okay. It wasn't like, oh, man, man, this is for the birds. No.
Yeah. You ain't had no other way.
Granny doing the best she can. That's what I mean. Boy, it used to break my heart every time she would send, because you know OJ would send cash. Grandma didn't have no checking account. We didn't have no money order. Grandma would send cash. She'd have to have liberty to send me cash in Savannah State.
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