NFL Players to Seek Role in Discipline Matters as CBA Negotiations Resume
by Dan Graziano Filed under: NFL Police Blotter , NFL Fans After a delay of more than a month, the NFL and its players will meet Tuesday for their second collective bargaining session. There are many issues to discuss as the sides work to avoid an uncapped 2010 season and a 2011 lockout of players by the owners. But according to sources close to the situation, one issue the players plan to raise during these negotiations is their desire to have some say in an NFL discipline policy currently controlled 100 percent by commissioner Roger Goodell . FanHouse’s Stephanie Stradley wrote in-depth about this issue a couple of weeks ago , and it’s an issue that came up earlier this month when players union head DeMaurice Smith met with player reps from the 32 teams to plot strategy in advance of the next round of negotiations. According to a source familiar with that meeting, players are very upset over the idea of the commissioner as judge, jury and executioner when it comes to the league’s personal conduct policy, and have expressed to union leadership a desire to seek some changes to the system. What the union hasn’t decided, however, is what form those changes should take. NFL Players to Seek Role in Discipline Matters as CBA Negotiations Resume originally appeared on NFL FanHouse on Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:25:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds . ? Permalink ?|? Email this ?|? Linking?Blogs ?|? Comments
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