Folks, it's nice that this Hurley fellow ripped Vincent a new one (and btw, Hurley has been great throughout) however, the reality is Hurley is not read outside of the 617 area code.
The more important answer to Vincent's canned "interview" with Ashley Fox came just after 6pm from Mike "Our New Best Friend" Florio who, basically, is laughing at the amateurishness of Vincent's mistake in doing this :
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/06/30/nflpa-has-short-simple-response-to-troy-vincent/
"......Apart from the legal fees that justifiably arise when the union is required to fight the league after the league goes too far with discipline is the question of actual waste. And many of you have noted that true waste arose from the NFL making #DeflateGate into a much bigger deal than it should have been,
with millions spent on an investigation aimed perhaps not at getting to the truth, but at justifying a knee-jerk result selected early in the process, when no one from the league office realized that the PSI numbers generated by New England’s footballs were both below the 12.5 minimum and also in line with the normal operation of the Ideal Gas Law.
As to the issue of NFLPA legal fees, the smarter (but not necessarily better) approach by the league may have been to cajole one or more members of the media into making the argument. Between the reporters on the league’s payroll and the reporters who have a track record of open disdain for current NFLPA leadership (or both), it shouldn’t have been hard to make the point
without forcing a senior member of NFL leadership to connect his name to the remarks.
Some would say it’s admirable for Vincent to express his views directly.
The only problem in this case is that his views are substantively incorrect and ultimately not helpful to building the kind of relationship needed to avoid unnecessary fighting."
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