In recent years, the NFLPA did a great thing by providing report cards that grade every team in several different categories based on the opinions of players.
The report cards covered everything from the state of the team's locker room to the quality of food served in the cafeteria and much, much more.
It was a great way to hold teams accountable when they were lacking in certain areas, and it even managed to drive some change.
However, as you'd expect, the NFL and its owners were none-too-pleased with these report cards, and so much so that the NFL filed a grievance against the NFLPA that has now led to a ban on the report cards.
"Sources: The NFL informed all 32 teams today in a memo that it prevailed in its grievance vs. the NFLPA and its “team report cards.” An arbitrator determined that the NFLPA’s conduct violated the CBA and ordered it to stop making public any future report cards," ESPN's Adam Schefter reported on Friday.
In response to that, New Orleans Saints running back Alvin Kamara came up with a simple way to circumvent that ruling: the players release their own report cards following each season without the NFLPA.
"What if the players made one and tweeted it out at the end of every year," Kamara tweeted with a laughing emoji.
It would be interesting to see if that would be something the NFL and owners could fight if done by the players without utilizing the NFLPA, but where there's a lawyer, there's a way.
No matter how it gets done, these report cards should continue to be a thing. There's nothing wrong with holding the league's most powerful people accountable when they're not serving their players to the best of their abilities.
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