Nflpa screws up again and reelects DeMaurice Smith

[PortCityProphet]

The NFL Players Association selection committee has unanimously determined to keep DeMaurice Smith as the executive director, consistent with a process that the union adopted to avoid the 10-candidate clusterfudge that unfolded in 2015. The 14-member selection committee could have determined to open the job up for a full election/selection process, with a small handful of candidates possibly being certified to run.

Lawyer Cyrus Mehri recently emerged as the primary challenger, mounting an aggressive effort to line up endorsements and generate interest. And while Mehri may complain that the process was in some way #rigged, the members of the committee were fully aware of his interest in the job, but they decided to stick with De Smith. Right or wrong, that’s their decision to make — just like it’s the decision of the owners to stick with Roger Goodell as Commissioner.

The next step for the union should be to extended Smith’s contract not by three years but by five, since a three-year contract would expire just as the current labor deal is set to terminate.

How they could keep him after getting raped on the last cba is beyond me. Sometimes you have to get some new aggressive blood in there and Smith seems lost and behind the ball most times.

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

I shed no tears for these fools

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

Who's on the 14 member selection committee?

 

[Remote]

The PA is gonna get destroyed in the next CBA and they will deserve it for electing this impotent negotiator

 

[duckbutta]

Smith isn't the greatest but I don't understand why people keep blaming him for players getting raped in the cba... they get raped because they have no other viable league to play in that pays what the nfl pays...not because smith is bad as his job...even though he is...uh...bad at his job...

 

[tremonthustler1]

 

[Fade Runner 2049]

D Smith haters

 

[desjardins]

The hype for this dude was crazy last go round. Just cause he was black and worked in Washington people thought he was going dominate the NFL owners for some reason,
I don't understand why the NFL union doesn't just play hard ball. They should have been telling players to save up since the last negotiation

 

[Thegospel]

Smith isn't the greatest but I don't understand why people keep blaming him for players getting raped in the cba... they get raped because they have no other viable league to play in that pays what the nfl pays...not because smith is bad as his job...even though he is...uh...bad at his job...

Like he made them cave in during the lockout . He can get money anytime with the degrees he got while NFL players would be

 

[Regular_P]

Give this guy a blank check and get out of the way.

 

[David_TheMan]

Dumbest union confirms why they are a joke. They don't even get a hardball negotiator in there like the NBAPA did, they get a man who had no labor experience but was friend with Obama and Holder. SMH

 

[Roger Goodell]

 

[SmoothOperator88]

I don't want to hear another NFL player get salty about an NBA contract after this.

 

[MJ Truth]

The hype for this dude was crazy last go round. Just cause he was black and worked in Washington people thought he was going dominate the NFL owners for some reason,
I don't understand why the NFL union doesn't just play hard ball. They should have been telling players to save up since the last negotiation

Lol, they're ALWAYS telling these dudes to save up.

It's not like the union is only fifty players or some shyt breh. Christ himself probably couldn't get all of these guys to be financially ready for a strike/lockout when they're not even financially prepared for regular life for most of them.

 

[Rekkapryde]

Give this guy a blank check and get out of the way.

This.

But he'd tell them to save their paper first just like DSmith and they'd still bullshyt. It's all on the players to take a stand (with the big name cac QBs out front) and sit out.

But they'll fold as always and continue to get raped