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The NFL filed a grievance asking the NFLPA to stop its annual team report cards, which grades clubs on everything from leadership to training-table food. The players’ union, however, told its members last week it will move ahead with this year’s survey. The league hopes to have a hearing heard by an arbitrator next month, per ESPN.
Linebacker Amen Ogbongbemiga, who is the Bears’ co-alternate union representative, said the survey serves a just cause.
“The whole purpose was to push for better for everyone,” he said Thursday. “It’s not necessarily to shame [teams], it’s to make people aware.