Dear players and coaches, NFL owners don’t care what you think when it comes to their interests – analysis

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Dear NFL players and coaches:

This is a note to remind you NFL owners don’t care what you think when it comes to their business interests, primary of which is making money.

Those nice men (and some women) who greet you breathlessly in your postgame locker room after a win, and fund your paychecks, and remember your name and shake your hand on the playing field, don’t give a rip what you think when it comes to league matters.

That should be evident now.

Because those owners the last three days heard your pleas and fully understood your stances on multiple league matters. They know there was almost a consensus among players and coaches on these matters.

And knowing how rare it is to get players and coaches across 32 teams to agree on anything, the owners voted against you. All of you.

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They instead voted for their interests.

Cleveland running back Jerome Ford (34) catches a kick-off during the NFL game between the Cleveland Browns and the Atlanta Falcons on October 2nd, 2022 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, GA.  (Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

The league on Monday voted to flex certain late-season games from Sunday to back to Thursday this season. And on Tuesday owners voted to change the kickoff rule so as to basically water down the play by inserting fair catches behind the 25-yard line — both in and out of the end zone — would place the ball at the 25.

Players and coaches in large majorities dislike both measures. They’ve argued against both measures. They have, in some instances, told ownership of their distaste for the ideas to their faces.

And