So far this offseason, we’ve talked about pandemics, we’ve talked about racial injustice and protests. Now we get to talk about labor strife, because that’s just the next stage in this offseason. The pandemic is still here. the protests are still here. Now the NFL is trying to get its season up and running with those major national discussions in the foreground.
The NFL and NFLPA are in serious and evidently growingly contentious discussions about what it all will look like. A new detail was revealed yesterday, in which, as Mark Maske of The Washington Post reports, the league wants to put 35 percent of player salaries in an escrow account.