Voluntary workouts not voluntary

[Mike the Brit]

I find this completely bizarre, like so much of the CBA and the NFLPA.

I mean, in the days when football didn't pay a living wage there might have been some justification in letting guys have off-season jobs. But now? We're talking about guys who are being paid millions of dollars every year. Even the worst paid are earning over 200k. And their employer isn't allowed to decide how they should best be prepared to play football? We're not talking eighty-hour weeks here.

It's just crazy.

 

[arrellbee]

An interesting aspect of this is similar to the the Bengals syndrome of drafting social problem players. Washington and Tennessee, among other teams, have gotten what they bought. If they didn't shop carefully, as the Patriots do, taking into account these issues of dedication to the game and willingness to put in the effort, then it is just 'whiny' to complain that the player's indeed aren't very interested in 'voluntary' programs. Could it have been any more obvious than Lendell White ? Nice draft sense Tennessee.

 

[zippo59]

Apparently LenWhale missed the OTA because he got caught up in Denver while visiting a sick relative.