The NFL and NFLPA tend to be at their most contentious during Collective Bargaining Agreement Negotiations. The 2021 offseason offers a rare opportunity to go head-to-head over a major issue during a long-term period of labor ‘peace’, under a 10-year CBA in effect.
The two sides had been in discussions for many weeks over the structure and nature of the offseason program this year, coming a year after everything in the offseason was curtailed except for training camp, due to the limiting factor of the coronavirus.
Even dating back to last season, the players union through president J.