It must be an interesting dynamic to be a young, relatively inexperienced head coach, and to have the president of the NFLPA on your team, while said president is seriously pushing to basically completely bring to an end all voluntary offseason in-person physical activities. That’s where the Cleveland Browns’ Kevin Stefanski finds himself with center J.C. Tretter, who was voted union president last year.
Since even in the middle of last season, Tretter has been sowing the seeds of what we are seeing this offseason, with many players, almost surely mostly veterans, taking a stance against participating in voluntary OTA sessions this year, arguing that it is irresponsible to do so during a pandemic, and also that it’s simply unnecessary.