Arizona Cardinals players SHOCKINGLY forced to pay their own food bills as the Team receives embarrassing failing grade on NFLPA Report Card
The NFLPA released it's first ever report card about the NFL teams on Wednesday.
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The NFL players’ association released its first report card about all 32 NFL teams on Wednesday afternoon. This NFLPA report card was made after getting responses from nearly 1,300 players from the league this year to evaluate the treatment of players by the clubs. Furthermore, the report revealed that the Arizona Cardinals were the only team in the league that charge their player for food, leading them to receive abysmal grades in the survey.
The players’ association asked them to rank their franchises in 8 categories, including food services and nutrition. The Cardinals received failing grades in most of these categories, but one that struck the most was the Arizona Cardinals charging players for the dinner. According to the survey, the players reported that the team would charge for dinners by deducting it from their payroll.
The Arizona-based football team is apparently the only team that does this. However, there are two other teams that don’t even offer dinner to their players. They are the Cincinnati Bengals and the New Orleans Saints. Anyway, back to the Cardinals, the players also reported that the franchise also charges them for every meal eaten at the facility after the season is over, again the only team in the league that does this.
Apart from food and nutrition, the Arizona Cardinals also received F or F- grades in 4 other categories, including in their treatment of the players’ family members leading the Cardinals to be ranked at the very bottom of the survey. In fact, the franchise ranked at no.31 in the NFLPA survey, only above the dismantled Washington Commanders.
The NFLPA president JC Tretter addresses their first report card
After releasing the first-ever report card on the NFL franchises, the former Cleveland Browns IO-lineman and the NFLPA union president JC Tretter said that he doesn’t expect the teams to change overnight, but he expects the team to reflect on their grades.
“I’m not expecting teams to knock down their facilities and rebuild them in the next three months,” Tretter said on Wednesday. “But some of the clear choices where you just have to decide are we going to treat players better? These can be fixed very, very quickly and we’ll be able to figure out whether it is being cheap or it is ignorance, that’ll be solved in Year 2 for sure.”
Nevertheless, from the Cardinals asking their players to pay for their own food to the Cincinnati Bengals not providing supplements to their players, the NFLPA report card has revealed some alarming issues in the league. Maybe in a few years, things will change because of this report card since it’ll play a huge role in players choosing their team in free agency.
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