Why NFL Players Can’t Hold Off on the Holdouts

Jun 18 2018 by Canal Street Chronicles

 

Exceptional players stuck in their rookie scale contracts have their predecessors to blame for their current salary landscape. Until the next collective bargaining agreement takes place after the 2020 season, there’s going to be a lot more holding out as it has become their only form of negotiating leverage.

I was watching ESPN the other day — as is common practice — and I got totally sucked in by a debate among Bill Polian, Tedy Bruschi, and Adam Schefter. Bruschi and Schefter...

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