{"id":6819,"date":"2025-07-19T00:54:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T00:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/6819\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T00:54:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T00:54:07","slug":"report-text-message-critical-of-jc-tretter-is-being-shared-among-nfl-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/6819\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Text message critical of JC Tretter is being “shared among” NFL players"},"content":{"rendered":"

With NFL Players Association executive director Lloyd Howell out, it\u2019s more than fair to be curious about the future<\/a> of NFLPA chief strategy officer JC Tretter. And we\u2019re not the only ones who have curiosity.<\/p>\n

Tretter served as NFLPA president when a top-secret process resulted in Howell being hired. Then, after Tretter was no longer eligible to serve as NFLPA president, Howell hired Tretter into the newly-created position of chief strategy officer.<\/p>\n

Early Friday, long-time NFLPA security officer Craig Jones raised, in poetic fashion, internal questions<\/a> about Tretter. Via Ben Volin of the Boston Globe, a text message questioning Tretter is \u201cbeing shared among NFL players<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the text of it:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen will the players rise up and hold Tretter accountable for all this? Tretter is the common denominator in all these scandals. We know Tretter: 1) Bent the rules to hire Howell; 2) Covered up Howell\u2019s background check; 3) Had knowledge of Howell\u2019s financial arrangement with Carlyle Group; 4) Kept the Arbitration decision (Drory [sic]) from his members; 5) Kept the Arbitration decision (Moreland) from his members that found he blatantly violated the CBA.\u201d<\/p>\n

The text message is being circulated at a time when there\u2019s talk, we\u2019re told, that some members of the NFLPA executive committee want to name Tretter the interim executive director. <\/p>\n

It would be a stunning move, if it happens. It would also be the latest in a string of objectively stunning moves that are far more understandable once it\u2019s understood that enough players are not paying attention to union business to allow a small handful of them to do whatever they want.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With NFL Players Association executive director Lloyd Howell out, it\u2019s more than fair to be curious about the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-6819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}