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The Coaching Squeeze

The recent discipline given to the Ravens shows the NFLPA’s mistrust of coaches and how the sideline leaders got the short end of the 2011 CBA

John Harbaugh and other NFL coaches typically like to get as much on-field teaching time with players as they can get.

The Ravens have become the latest team to feel the wrath of NFL discipline, but unlike other cases—Patriots, anyone?—the NFL and its antagonist, the NFLPA, are in lockstep when it comes to punishing Baltimore.

The union is all in on sanctioning teams for running afoul of players’ rights, and this reprimand involves a long-standing subject of dispute between NFL teams and their players, one that became a focus of the most recent collective bargaining negotiations.