ANALYSIS/OPINION:
Once again, the NFL has demonstrated its uncanny inability to find the sweet spot between extremes. On some of the most pressing issues the league faces, its judgment either caroms off the left pole or ricochets off the right one, as if splitting uprights is equivalent to splitting atoms.
Roger Goodell & Co. continue to struggle — and fail mightily — to find the proper balance on so many things. Player benefits. Player protests. Player conduct. Player safety.
Bonk, bonk, bonk, bonk.
Eric Dickerson and several other Hall of Famers are leading a push for improved benefits for retired players.