NFLPA report card: Complaints about Pats plane (edit: Florio talking about last year's report)

[sb1]

Ruling in NFLPA report card grievance includes 2025 criticisms as to 11 teams

The NFL filed a grievance over the NFL Players Association's annual report cards in order to keep the NFLPA from publicizing criticisms of teams and owners.

www.nbcsports.com

Wasn't this already fixed?

 

[Rob0729]

This is one of the downfalls of owning your own plane. Most of the teams still do charters which allows them to get the most up to date charter planes for the team.

Kraft owns the team plane. So it gets dated. The cost to reoutfitting a jet is exorbitant. So it is unlikely that Kraft will put the money into reoutfitting the plan. I think only the Cardinals own their own plane.

 

[Steve102]

Ruling in NFLPA report card grievance includes 2025 criticisms as to 11 teams

The NFL filed a grievance over the NFL Players Association's annual report cards in order to keep the NFLPA from publicizing criticisms of teams and owners.

www.nbcsports.com

Wasn't this already fixed?

You took the click bait. It's the off-season, there's nothing to talk about, so they post negative **** to rile up the natives. Good work.

 

[Hammer of Thor]

Ruling in NFLPA report card grievance includes 2025 criticisms as to 11 teams

The NFL filed a grievance over the NFL Players Association's annual report cards in order to keep the NFLPA from publicizing criticisms of teams and owners.

www.nbcsports.com

Wasn't this already fixed?

This isn’t new — the references in the lawsuit were from last year’s report published in the spring of 2025. There’s a thread on this site about that. Florio doesn’t call out that distinction in his article and is making it sound like new information for the clicks.

 

[Nikolai]

Apparently, the team plane's condition prepared/hardened them to go undefeated on the road (until...you know). Maybe, they're taking the US Army approach to personnel movement...

"We got you here, didn't we? Stop being a whiny little ***** and do your job."

I mean, the way we ****ed some teams on the road, I'm sure the boys could go for a smoke on the flight back.

Ok...I'm done now

 

[FCB02062]

The ashtray thing was never true. You folks need to realize anything coming from Florio r.e. the Patriots is 99% of the time just to stir **** up and drive traffic to his site. florio writes something absurd, felger and mazz do an entire segment on it, and florio gets clicks....**** florio

 

[DaBruinz]

Why are we talking about this again? This came up after last season. It was ridiculous then and it's ridiculous now..

 

[DaBruinz]

Apparently, the team plane's condition prepared/hardened them to go undefeated on the road (until...you know). Maybe, they're taking the US Army approach to personnel movement...

"We got you here, didn't we? Stop being a whiny little ***** and do your job."

I mean, the way we ****ed some teams on the road, I'm sure the boys could go for a smoke on the flight back.

Ok...I'm done now

This is from last year's NFLPA survey.. The one completed after Mayo's season.

 

[borg]

This is one of the downfalls of owning your own plane. Most of the teams still do charters which allows them to get the most up to date charter planes for the team.

Kraft owns the team plane. So it gets dated. The cost to reoutfitting a jet is exorbitant. So it is unlikely that Kraft will put the money into reoutfitting the plan. I think only the Cardinals own their own plane.

Bob is in the charter business. His planes are not exclusively used by the team. His plane inventory just happens to be old and dated.

 

[AQPE]

It is actually good to see this in a way. It helps to reveal media BS tricks to more people. Anyone who thinks they have integrity and just care about the truth needs to get over it. Guys like Florio and Breer are simply less filtered about or more greedy about it.

 

[mike_usagisan]

It sounds like they'll still be making the report cards but not publicizing them. So the media in each market (and nationally) will be falling over themselves to get the unpublicized report cards and release the results.

 

[Triumph]

Anybody see any ashtrays here?

 

[Rob0729]

Bob is in the charter business. His planes are not exclusively used by the team. His plane inventory just happens to be old and dated.

I get that, but it officially the team plane. He just charters it out to others. I mean you cannot have a plane worth tens of millions of dollars and a flight crew on staff and all the other expenses and only fly it 8-15 times a year for away games.

 

[Rob0729]

Anybody see any ashtrays here?

I think those are the premium seats. Not sure they are all like that.

 

[Vindicate]

It sounds like they'll still be making the report cards but not publicizing them. So the media in each market (and nationally) will be falling over themselves to get the unpublicized report cards and release the results.

Which, let me be clear, is a shame. Players have a lot of work to do with this next CBA... From weird clauses of "disparaging talk" to limited practice... Just a lot to address there.

 

[n1997y]

I think those are the premium seats. Not sure they are all like that.

Outdated photo. They don’t even have a #12 on the roster any more.

 

[Rob0729]

Outdated photo. They don’t even have a #12 on the roster any more.

Wait! Brady isn't on the roster anymore?!? When did that happen? Him leaving the Patriots should be huge news. How did I miss that?

 

[n1997y]

Wait! Brady isn't on the roster anymore?!? When did that happen? Him leaving the Patriots should be huge news. How did I miss that?

Florio must’ve dropped the ball. Or maybe he’s planning that as his next expose after this one runs its course.

 

[Triumph]

I think those are the premium seats. Not sure they are all like that.

This claims that all seating is for comfort. The 767 - 300 was designed to carry 300 passengers, but Kraft reconfigured the planes for the team.

AirKraft: A Guide To The New England Patriots' Private Jets

The NFL team operates its own business jets.

simpleflying.com

 

[Triumph]

Outdated photo. They don’t even have a #12 on the roster any more.

Which means that new seating was installed w/o ashtrays.