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Opinion: De. Maurice Smith, NFLPA to blame for lousy football. What would have been De.
Maurice Smith’s legacy as NFLPA boss, I wonder, if he had not been re- elected Tuesday to lead the union into the second collective bargaining era of his career? What has Smith, the University of Virginia- educated lawyer, delivered since his election in 2. I think you’re watching it.
Bad football is a pervasive theme of the 2. NFL campaign. You could put together a feature- length film consisting merely of offensive tackles being slapped aside, bulldozed or put on ice skates in the first two weeks of the season. The league’s newfangled next- gen route- tracking technology gives us painfully precise recreations of wobbly out routes and wayward post- corners. On Sunday we’re sending the good people of London a scintillating showdown between Joe Flacco and Blake Bortles. I’ve seen blame cast on the rise of spread offenses in college football. It’s not a bad theory.
A convincing argument can be made that college quarterbacks aren’t being challenged to learn certain complexities of offensive football they might have been tasked with two decades ago. It’s also a theory entirely too abstract to quantify. Here’s a hard fact that has nothing to do with college football and everything to do with the quality of the pro game in 2.
Players are younger today, on average, than they were in 2. The year before the new CBA was ratified, just one team, the Houston Texans, opened the season with an average age under 2. One year ago that number rose to 1. What happened? De. Maurice Smith’s NFLPA happened. Watch Blood And Bone Streaming here.
In an effort to curb exorbitant rookie salaries that owners and players alike agreed were getting out of hand, the NFLPA overcorrected, enacting a rookie wage scale that incentivized NFL teams to stockpile young talent and save surplus cash for a handful of second contracts. The union also agreed to shortened practice time in the offseason, a measure that had the full backing of players but should have been more carefully scrutinized. The consequences are clear. As Kevin Clark at The Ringer chronicled last year, executives and coaches agreed that players were more inexperienced than ever.“Everything from defensive linemen not knowing where their eyes should be looking, not knowing where blocks are coming from,” Baltimore Ravens head coach John Harbaugh told Clark. Defensive backs not recognizing routes, not knowing how to burst, stop, start, and change direction so they don’t tear their ACLs. Offensive linemen not knowing where blitzers are coming from. Just not a lot of technique anywhere."Smith was not alone in accepting these new measures.
Shortened practice time in the offseason and smaller contracts for inexperienced players were measures embraced by players in 2. There were other player- friendly aspects of the CBA, including improved health, pension and insurance benefits.) But it’s not simply the job of union leadership to appease players; while the membership is looking five years down the road, leadership must be looking 2. In rescuing a veering semi from careening off a cliff, Smith steered the rig into the side of the mountain.
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The shift rendered the middle- class contract endangered. Players who at 2. NFL of yesteryear found themselves on the street, replaced by inexperienced rookies at a fraction of the cost. Players got younger, and pro football got worse. And yet Smith, who negotiated the 2.
NFL owners, kept his job. And the new deal didn’t just diminish the middle class of NFL players. It transformed the player agent industry too. Predictably, the simplification of rookie contracts to a structured scale and the reduction of second- contract opportunities for average players reduced the need for hands- on boutique player representation, paving the way for large conglomerate agencies with substantial financial backing to stockpile rookies and live on lowered fees. In essence, the NFL has become an exaggerated version of the meat market it already was, with a line of young talent coursing through a revolving door, and a handful of superstar quarterbacks throwing five- yard passes to bewildered young receivers from pockets comprised of ingénues. As a general manager, you can get away with leaning on young replacements as long as everyone’s doing it.
At the beginning of last season there were more undrafted free agents on NFL rosters (4. Elias. This statistic was celebrated as a triumph of the collective little guy, but at what expense? In 2. 01. 2, before the realities of the new bargaining agreement dawned on roster builders, there were 4. UDFAs on opening- day rosters. The difference of more than two players per team comes at the expense of veterans who might have previously enjoyed modest second contracts in exchange for competent, effective performance.
More cynically, that 4. CBA than to their own merit. Whether union leadership lacked the foresight to see this coming, or they saw it as a necessary capitulation, all of it happened under Smith. And none of it is good. We have a newsletter, and you can subscribe, and it’s free. Get “The Morning Huddle,” delivered to your inbox first thing each weekday, by going here and checking The MMQB newsletter box. Start your day with the best of the NFL, from The MMQB.
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