00:00but do you think that's a fair statement mike that the nfl pa is is pretty weak and has gotten
00:21beaten down for decades well here's the problem and this goes back to the strike in 1987
00:27that held together for a few weeks and then players started to cross the picket lines
00:31and then in 2011 the lockout the lockout ended just as it was time for players to miss game checks
00:39when the preseason was getting started nfl players have short careers nfl players want to play
00:47football nfl players want to get paid to play football they need the money that comes from
00:51playing football nfl owners have enough money to shut the sport down for a year when the nuclear
00:58option and collective bargaining of a work stoppage when one side will do it and one side won't that
01:05creates an imbalance and there's an apathy that the nfl players have shown they're not interested
01:12they're not engaged because at the end of the day they're going to take the best deal and they're
01:16going to play football don't drag me down with details because at the end of the day we're doing
01:21the best deal and i think the league has weaponized that apathy against the player players for years
01:27and i think that over the past couple of years the way that lloyd howell was selected with his top
01:33secret process there was no transparency there was just a lot of weird things that happened i feel like
01:38nfl pa leadership has been weaponizing the apathy against the players as well and the challenge for
01:44the players is to wake up and take charge of their unions they're never going to have a chance
01:49to fight the nfl if they can't take control of their union and ensure that the people who are
01:54in charge of the union are willing to fight the nfl
01:57you
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