The NFL has one of the Dolphins’ top recruitment tools under siege, but there’s no reason to worry
One of Miami’s best player recruitment tools is under siege — but there’s no need to worry.
The on-field wins haven’t been trending in the right direction for the Miami Dolphins these past few seasons. But the Dolphins have been logging some big wins off the field.
Perhaps the most ironic of these is the NFLPA’s annual ‘team report cards’ — a polling of players across the league to grade teams and owners on the accommodations, facilities, and resources each franchise provides to a player. Miami has been at the top of the charts for the past few seasons, a glowing review of a franchise that has spared no expense in order to manifest a winner, but has yet to find one. The report cards have drawn the ire of the league, as they paint some teams and owners in a bad light. And a new grievance ruling has put those report cards in the crosshairs, but there’s no need to worry about the Dolphins losing the recruitment tool in years to come. Here’s why.
NFL wins grievance over NFLPA to privatize team ‘report cards’
The NFL has successfully won a complaint to help prevent future embarrassment for team owners who have failed the player review. Jets team owner Woody Johnson bashed the report cards this past season after his franchise was blasted (again) with poor reviews. The Dolphins have been atop the rankings the last two seasons — not that it has helped them win the games they’ve been looking to win in recent years. Dolphins owner Stephen Ross has, unsurprisingly, offered no complaints on the matter…
Per the notice given to the franchises today, all future NFLPA report cards for franchises are not permitted to be “published or publicly disclosed.”
This would seem to suggest that the concept of report cards can still be conducted, so long as they are not publicized. Even Schefter’s own wording for his reporting phrased it as the arbitrator determined “the NFPA’s conduct violated the CBA and ordered it to stop making public any future report cards.” And that would mean Miami’s good-standing in the eyes of players can still very much be alive and well — so long as it is behind closed doors.
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