Voting for new NFLPA director begins tonight

[Mr. Scot]

NFLPA to elect Executive Director on Sunday night

Make no mistake. This will have a big effect on the future of the league.

Definitely looking forward to seeing who winds up in this job.

[JccOldTime23]

I just hope Sean Gilbert doesn't win.

[Mr. Scot]

I just hope Sean Gilbert doesn't win.

I'm not a fan, either.

[LinvilleGorge]

I just hope Sean Gilbert doesn't win.

 

This.  Could seriously be the end of the NFL as we know it if he wins.  He'd be wanting the union to go on strike literally every year.

[Mol3m4n]

Could someone tell me, as someone unfamiliar, what Sean Gilbert's platform is?

[TN05]

Could someone tell me, as someone unfamiliar, what Sean Gilbert's platform is?

 

It's very comprehensive, 23 points. Essentially he wants to overturn the current CBA and then push for an 18-game season, increased minimum salary to $1 million, three-year rookie contracts (with renegotiation allowed after one year), 57-player rosters (11-man practice squads), requiring teams to spend the entire salary cap, giving players 10% of non guaranteed money for being cut, players only being able to be franchise tagged once over their entire career, elimination of transition tag, eliminating compensatory draft picks, stripping Goodell of his power over player discipline, and moving the Super Bowl to President's day weekend.

If that sounds ridiculous, even Gilbert admits it will never pass.

About the only good idea he has is to create an NFLPA fantasy football platform, and then abolish dues (as the platform would make money to offset it), and that's only good for the players.

[JccOldTime23]

Could someone tell me, as someone unfamiliar, what Sean Gilbert's platform is?

 

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/writer/jason-la-canfora/24680583/ex-agent-sean-gilbert-outlines-plan-to-unseat-nflpa-head-de-smith

 

 

 

Gilbert, uncle to Patriots star corner Darrelle Revis (who also benefitted from contract holdouts himself), believes there is an opportunity to have the CBA terminated well before its conclusion date and he outlined a highly-ambitious plan during the conference call, with a platform aiming to curb rookie contracts at three-years, make major changes to the franchise-tag designation, raise the minimum NFL salary to $1M and cut two weeks of preseason in exchange for an 18-game season. How reasonable and feasible this proves to be, time will tell, but Gilbert spent considerable time at the grassroots level meeting with players this summer, and, ultimately it will take a vote by the NFLPA's union representatives of all 32 teams to eventually put Gilbert before Smith for a vote at the group's annual conference in March.

[tondi]

Sounds like the kind of guy who will cost us a season because God knows the owners would give up a season before agreeing to 90% of that.   Of course the players will be broke after they miss a few paychecks and will come crawling back well before an entire season was lost.

[Mr. Scot]

You're talking about a guy who willingly sat out over an entire season despite being offered a highly lucrative deal.

If I'm the league, I'm looking at this and going "oh please no"

[PandaMan]

DeMaurice Smith got re-elected

[LinvilleGorge]

Not a fan of Smith, but any outcome was preferable to a Sean Gilbert win.

[Mr. Scot]

Thank God.

Of course now Gilbert will hold out until he's given the job.

[Panthro]

I do like some of his points though. Discipline should be run through a separate party.