Report: Text message critical of JC Tretter is being "shared among" NFL players
Tretter served as NFLPA president when a top-secret process resulted in Howell being hired. Then, after Tretter was no longer eligible to serve as NFLPA president, Howell hired Tretter into the newly-created position of chief strategy officer.
Early Friday, long-time NFLPA security officer Craig Jones raised, in poetic fashion, internal questions about Tretter. Via Ben Volin of the Boston Globe, a text message questioning Tretter is 'being shared among NFL players.'
Here's the text of it:
'When will the players rise up and hold Tretter accountable for all this? Tretter is the common denominator in all these scandals. We know Tretter: 1) Bent the rules to hire Howell; 2) Covered up Howell's background check; 3) Had knowledge of Howell's financial arrangement with Carlyle Group; 4) Kept the Arbitration decision (Drory [sic]) from his members; 5) Kept the Arbitration decision (Moreland) from his members that found he blatantly violated the CBA.'
The text message is being circulated at a time when there's talk, we're told, that some members of the NFLPA executive committee want to name Tretter the interim executive director.
It would be a stunning move, if it happens. It would also be the latest in a string of objectively stunning moves that are far more understandable once it's understood that enough players are not paying attention to union business to allow a small handful of them to do whatever they want.
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