Woody Johnson gets win with NFLPA report card…
Score a victory for the Jets and Woody Johnson.
Because of alleged suspect information-gathering and grading methodologies, Johnson led the charge by NFL house owners to debunk the Players Association’s 11-category “Team Report Cards” that have been publicized the last three offseasons.
An unbiased arbitrator agreed in ruling that the Report Cards violate the Collective Bargaining Agreement and also issuing an order stopping the disclosure of any future Report Cards, according to a memo despatched Friday by the league to all 32 groups.
Johnson acquired the only “F” grade among staff house owners last season and the Jets ranked No. 29 out of 32 across the board, though that evaluation could be framed in a different way after the NFLPA’s counsel admitted, per the memo, during the grievance proceedings that the union:
• “cherry-picked which topics and responses to include (or not) in the Report Cards.”
• had its staffers write the summaries and that “players had no role in drafting the commentary included in the Report Cards.” For instance, the Jets’ 2025 report card read that “rather than addressing concerns, players believed that management responded to (2024) feedback by making conditions worse.”
Jets proprietor Woody Johnson. Bill Kostroun/New York Post
• “selected which anonymous individual player quotations to include (or exclude entirely) to support its chosen narrative.”
• “determined the weight of each topic and the resulting impact on the alphabetical grades it assigned.”
The Jets’ lowest grade (D+, rating No. 26 among the groups) exterior of Johnson’s was for the locker room, which was solely revamped before last season and acquired high reward from gamers.
Johnson already had commissioned the locker-room renovation before the Report Cards have been launched.
“In essence, the record established that the Report Cards were designed by the union to advance its interests under the guise of a scientific exercise,” the memo read. “These facts highlight the numerous and significant limitations in the methodology and accuracy of the Team Report Card results.”
The NFLPA said that roughly 77 p.c of its membership took half in the survey from Aug. 26, 2024 through Nov. 20, 2024.
Johnson called the outcomes “totally bogus” last March. How so?
The Jets’ facility in Florham Park, N.J. AP
“How they collected the information, who they collected it from – it’s supposed to be a process where we have representatives and they have representatives so we know it’s an honest survey,” Johnson said. “And that was violated, in my opinion.
“There are a lot of owners that looked at this survey and said this is not fair, not balanced, it’s not every player, it’s not even representative of the players.”
The arbitrator agreed.
One survey part that will stay, however, is the gamers’ opinions concerning the adequacy of medical care offered, per the memo.
The NFL’s Management Council and the NFLPA will continue to design and conduct such a survey in the future.
The NFL also inspired groups to solicit suggestions instantly from gamers to assess areas where house owners can invest in services, staffs and providers to present an improved expertise.
Of course, gamers is likely to be less snug offering the reality without the nameless platform.
“We are pleased with the decision from the arbitrator, upholding the parties’ collective bargaining agreement and prohibiting the NFLPA from disparaging our clubs and individuals through ‘report cards’ allegedly based on data and methodologies that it has steadfastly refused to disclose,” an NFL spokesperson said. “We remain committed to working in partnership with the NFLPA and an independent survey company to develop and administer a scientifically valid survey to solicit accurate and reliable player feedback as the parties agreed in the CBA.”
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