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USA Today
7 days ago
- Sport
- USA Today
Reports: NFL, NFLPA covered up fake injury grievance ruling
The NFL and NFLPA concealed another grievance ruling from earlier this year, according to reports from Pro Football Talk and the "Pablo Torre Finds Out" podcast. Recently, ESPN reported that the NFL and NFLPA agreed to conceal findings of a grievance filed by the players union, in which an arbitrator found that the league had encouraged its owners to engage in collusion. On July 17, Pablo Torre and Mike Florio revealed that the NFL won a different grievance ruling against the NFLPA earlier this year. The league originally filed the grievance in September 2023 accusing the union of encouraging players to fake injuries. It came as a result of JC Tretter's comments months earlier alluding that faking injuries was a way for a player to avoid fines in contract negotiation holdouts. NFL COLLUSION GRIEVANCE: League and players union agreed to keep arbitration findings secret, per report Said Tretter at the time: "I think we've seen issues — now, I don't think anybody would say they were fake injuries, but we've seen players who didn't want to be where they currently are, have injuries that made them unable to practice and play, but you're not able to get fined, and you're not able to be punished for not reporting. So there are issues like that. I don't think I'm allowed to ever recommend that, at least publicly, but I think each player needs to find a way to build up leverage to try to get a fair deal. And that's really what all these guys are looking for, is to be compensated fairly." According to Florio and Torre's reporting, a Feb. 20 decision from a non-injury grievance arbitrator gave the NFL a win following their complaint. A statement the league wrote to Pro Football Talk read: "The Arbitrator upheld the Management Council's grievance in its entirety and found that Mr. Tretter's statements violated the CBA by improperly encouraging players to fake injury." The statement went on to clarify that the NFL did not allege any specific player faked an injury and that the league's issue was with Tretter and the union potentially encouraging the behavior. The league alleged the NFLPA violated an article in the two parties' collective bargaining agreement that prohibits the union from, as Florio put it, "engag[ing] in de facto, individualized strikes." Neither party disclosed the outcome of the decision publicly in the immediate aftermath of the NFL's arbitration victory. Florio suggested in his article that the cover-up may have been the result of a behind-closed-doors agreement. If the NFLPA agreed not to publicize the findings from a collusion grievance that found the NFL encouraged owners to engage in collusion to keep down player contract values, the league would not expose their grievance win regarding fake injuries.
Yahoo
15-07-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Bengals' Shemar Stewart takes unprecedented step toward returning to Texas A amid contract holdout
With each passing day, there's a bit of a stronger feeling that Shemar Stewart may somehow wind up not playing for the Cincinnati Bengals. The first-round pick from Texas A&M is holding out due to specific language demands in his contract negotiations that aren't being met. Advertisement And now, CBS Sports reporter Bud Elliott has shared that Stewart is back in College Station working out with his former Texas A&M team. There's the idea that he might go back to school and enter the draft again next year. "It may not be legal yet, but then again, everything in the NCAA is subject to litigation," Elliott said. "I didn't know you could do this. I knew you could do this in baseball... I don't know why you could do it in baseball but not football. You probably have to go to court." MORE: How good was LeBron at football? NBA legend would have been 'one of the best' in NFL Pro Football Talk's Mike Florio wrote about this earlier in the offseason, too. Florio, though, shared a specific passage from the Collective Bargaining Agreement that essentially suggests Stewart could go back to school but then would still be considered a Bengals draft pick after the season. Advertisement Here's that Florio breakdown: "This is something that we contemplated during the 2025 draft both as to quarterback Shedeur Sanders and quarterback Quinn Ewers — Stewart could try to return to college for the upcoming season. Even though it would require an actual or threatened legal battle against the NCAA, the rule that prevents a player who has been drafted but who hasn't signed an NFL contract from returning to college football could be susceptible to an attack under the antitrust laws. "Somewhat surprisingly, the CBA contemplates the possibility that a drafted player will instead go back to college. Here's the language, from Article 6, Section 6: 'If any college football player who becomes eligible for the Draft prior to exhausting his college football eligibility through participation is drafted by an NFL Club, and returns to college, the drafting Club's exclusive right to negotiate and sign a Player Contract with such player shall continue through the date of the Draft that follows the last season in which the player was eligible to participate in college football, and thereafter the player shall be treated and the Club shall have such exclusive rights as if he were drafted in such Draft by such Club (or assignee Club).' "In English, this means that, if Stewart returns to college football in 2025, he'd be treated as a draft pick of the Bengals in 2026. Which means that he wouldn't be permitted to re-enter the draft next year." This would certainly be unprecedented by Stewart, and if he pulls it off, it could set a wild new trend that would change college football and the NFL Draft forever. At this point, that may just be what happens. MORE NFL NEWS:
USA Today
01-07-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
NFL insider shares wild take about the future of Panthers HC Dave Canales
Panthers head coach Dave Canales can't be in danger of losing his job already . . . right? Well, that might be a possibility according to Pro Football Talk's Mike Florio—who believes a disastrous campaign could spell the end of Canales' run. Florio named the second-year head coach as one of five candidates he thinks may feel the heat of the hot seat in 2025. He writes: There's a glass-half-full vibe around the Panthers, given that they finished relatively strong in 2024 after a disastrous start. If that comes to fruition for the 2025 Panthers, all will be well. If the wheels come off, it could spell doom for Canales, who enters his second season on the job. The key becomes owner David Tepper. Will the hard-charging, results-demanding, drink-throwing (at least once) owner tolerate, say, a 4-13 finish? It won't be easy for Canales, if that happens. Mainly because of the guy who signs the checks, and who issues the pink slips. That glass-half-full vibe comes after a noted improvement in the first year under Canales, who led the Panthers to a three-win jump from the season prior. Carolina was also more competitive than they were in 2023, as evidenced by their near-upsets of the eventual AFC champion Kansas City Chiefs in Week 12 and the eventual NFC champion Philadelphia Eagles in Week 14. But Florio surmises that a step back could ignite the itchy trigger finger of Tepper, something we saw after just 11 games of Frank Reich in 2023. Tepper is now in his eighth year as team owner, and still has yet to experience a winning season. The Panthers, in addition, are entering 2025 on the longest playoff drought in franchise history. Follow @ThePanthersWire on Twitter/X for more Panthers content.
Time of India
26-06-2025
- Business
- Time of India
NFL exposed for secret plan to limit player deals as insider Mike Florio reveals explosive 2022 meeting
NFL exposed for secret plan to limit player deals as insider Mike Florio reveals explosive 2022 meeting (Image via X) A shocking new report has put the National Football League in the spotlight. Details have come out that suggest the league may have quietly pushed teams to avoid giving full guaranteed contracts to players. This information, revealed by respected NFL analyst Mike Florio, has raised many questions about how much control the league has over team spending. Mike Florio says NFL encouraged owners to act together Mike Florio, the founder of Pro Football Talk, shared on Tuesday that the NFL may have tried to quietly influence all 32 team owners during a private meeting in March 2022. This meeting reportedly took place right after Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson signed a fully guaranteed $230 million contract. The deal made headlines as one of the biggest in NFL history. — profootballtalk (@profootballtalk) According to Florio, an arbitration ruling from Christopher Droney confirmed that the league's management group, with support from Commissioner Roger Goodell, encouraged teams to stop offering fully guaranteed deals to veteran players. These discussions happened during the annual NFL owners' meeting in 2022, held in Florida. Florio quoted Droney saying, 'There is little question that the NFL Management Council, with the blessing of the Commissioner, encouraged the 32 NFL Clubs to reduce guarantees in veterans' contracts at the March 2022 annual owners' meeting.' by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Maharashtra Mosquito-Free Nights: Residents Share Unexpected Secret Mosquito Eliminator Read More Undo However, the ruling and full details were never shared with the public or the NFL Players Association, according to Florio. The insider claimed the league and players union decided not to release the documents or the decision. This left many people wondering why such important information was kept quiet. NFL arbitration ruling confirms collusion talks but clears teams of illegal action in 2024 case Although the ruling was made in private, the league won the case in 2024. Florio explained that during a follow-up hearing, evidence showed that teams had not followed the league's advice. Because there was no proof that teams acted on the idea, the arbitrator sided with the league. Still, the suggestion alone raised concerns. The main issue now is that a top league official may have pushed a plan that could hurt players' chances of getting fair pay. Pablo Torre, another well-known reporter, also helped bring the story forward. He confirmed parts of the report with his own sources. Also Read: Who's Leading The 2025 NFL MVP Race? Here Are The Top 5 Contenders Although the league took no action on the proposal, the study has increased pressure on the NFL to be more transparent about its decision-making process. Given money, power, and trust on the line, this narrative is probably far from over. Game On Season 1 continues with Mirabai Chanu's inspiring story. Watch Episode 2 here.
Epoch Times
24-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Epoch Times
‘A Senior Citizen's Guide to Life on the Run'
Gwen Florio's 'A Senior Citizen's Guide to Life on the Run' is a comic mystery story about a group of retirees who must decide how deep their friendship really goes. Florio also tosses in social satire alongside a heartfelt exploration of aging, memory, and the legacy of youthful idealism. Does it work? Mostly, yes. Set in a modest New Jersey retirement community, the novel follows Alice, Mia, Sasha, and George. The four are earnest and good-natured folks who are only interested in peace and good times with friends. However, circumstances have other plans. For one of them, mistakes of the past suddenly catch up with him or her as murder comes to visit. Timeless Pastures Our heroes are residents of Timeless Pastures. Although this fictional community is designed for 'active adults,' the four regard it as a kind of holding pen rather than a home. They joke that they really have been put out to pasture. Regardless of any problems with their community, it's what they have, and they're doing the best they can with it. Little do they know, a greedy and unscrupulous man named Hawk Boneham III has a plan in the works to take over the community.
