Why would the NFL lie about something that it knows is not true and will be certainly and easily refuted? That is what I can’t help but wonder after league sources earlier in the week leaked to Adam Schefter that it was the NFLPA that prevented the league from pushing back the start of the new league year amidst the background of the coronavirus outbreak.
NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith on ESPN yesterday made it clear that not only did it have nothing to do with them, the NFL never even consulted the union about the possibility of delaying free agency.