The most stunning, and underreported, development of the summer came from the news that the NFL and the NFL Players Association hid for more than five months the 61-page ruling in a collusion grievance regarding fully-guaranteed player contracts.

The NFL won, but the NFLPA secured a finding of an attempt to collude — along with persuasive evidence of actual collusion and the right to appeal the case. The union should have used the document as the basis for a legal, political, and P.R. assault on the NFL.

Former NFLPA executive director Lloyd Howell didn’t do that. Former NFLPA chief strategy officer JC Tretter insists he was excluded from the development of the strategy to conceal the ruling.

Appearing earlier this week on #PFTPM to promote his new book, Turf Wars, former NFLPA executiv

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