The NFL's practice of forcing coaches' employment disputes into closed-door arbitration could be heading for a shakeup after recent court decisions deeming the league's rules unenforceable. Two separate courts have ruled in favor of coaches' challenges to NFL arbitration requirements, with one panel labeling the league's arbitration process "unconscionable" and another calling it "unworthy even of the name of arbitration."

Two coaches had complained about the league's arbitration clause in the NFL constitution, which leaves NFL commissioner Roger Goodell as the final arbiter in employment disputes even when he is a defendant in those cases.

An NFL spokesman did not provide comment, but legal analysts told ESPN the court decisions are likely to have a broader impact on the power dynamic b

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