Indianapolis – When Washington commanders ranked as the lowest workplace in the league last year, the new team owner, Josh Harris, replied frankly: “I am not a guy F -Minus.”
After a season to implement changes in the wake of the forced sale of Daniel Snyder, Harris proved it while the 32nd consecutive team of the League jumped in 11th place in the The annual survey of “Speld Report” of the NFLPA.
The first year head coach Dan Quinn ranked as the most popular coach in the League when he won a team of commanders from 4-13 to 12-5 and an appearance as the NFC title during his first year. Commanders have also improved their food services, their travels Just an F (cloakroom) And a composite level equivalent to AB, said the union.
On the other hand, the New York Jets fell from the team from 21 to 29th to 29th, the players, the players reported concerns that the owner of the Woody Johnson team was not willing to invest in improvements (Johnson classified last), did not contribute to a positive culture (last) and did not commit to constituting a competitive team (second-long duration).
Jet players have cited a food aggravation programThe lack of attention of training staff to their needs and a conviction “that management responded to comments by aggravating the conditions”.
“They talked about culture – this is a problem in mind,” said NFLPA strategy director JC Trette, said about the Jets response. “(They said:” It’s a culture of fear here. “And I think it stood out in these notes.”
Johnson initially reacted emotionally to the requests for change, said Union Executive Director Lloyd Howell.
“Like” hey, I made these changes, they weren’t appreciated, so what am I going to make them go back “,” said Howell. “I think that after the discussion, the cooler heads prevailed and we started to restore some of the changes.”
In other league clubs, improvement has shown.
The biggest victory in the NFLPA in survey: childcare for families
The upgrades of the facilities have helped certain major lords, including the Falcons of Atlanta which jumped from the 25th highest team to the third.
But during the third year of its investigation process on the report, the players’ union generally saw the conditions improved from the start of the program. This includes the treatment of families.
Eleven teams did not provide daycare during home matches when the union started its program, a number seven last year. By 2024, only three teams were still without daycare.
“It is not only a problem of walls and buildings to be killed,” said Trettet. “There are softer problems with regard to the treatment of families, with regard to travel, with regard to staff, who make major differences for players.
“There are several ways to solve your problems.”
Overall, Falcons have considerably improved installations and staff. A persistent concern that Union believes is completely repairable: the rooms of the locker room better ventilated.
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The Eagles of Philadelphia, the Bengals of Cincinnati and the Packers of Green Bay are the three clubs not to offer the daycare. Of the 29 teams that provide daycare, 27 provide it free of charge while the Rams of San Francisco 49ers and Los Angeles load. The 49ers billed $ 40 per child per match while the RAMs billed $ 75 per first child and $ 50 per additional child for each match.
Ten teams do not offer a family room during home games, including Bengals – the only team that offers neither day career nor family room.
“Bengal players have the impression that there is little or no effort deployed with regard to the organization’s efforts to support their families,” said the club bulletin, even if he has cited major improvements in the locker room. “A player describes the treatment of families as” almost disrespectful “.”
Bengals are also one of the two teams not to provide three meals a day throughout the work week, although they added Wednesday dinners and breakfasts out of day after including including or in 2023. New Orleans’ saints do not offer three meals every day, although it may change with a new cafeteria that opened its doors in December after the end of the survey.
The Kansas City chiefs improved in several areas as they were starting to offer a daycare and a family room, also hiring the Dietitian of the New York Jets to improve the Kansas City food program.
But the best chiefing room is with the Team hotel for home matches, the only installation of this type to receive information on the bullets.
What teams have best noted, the worst of the union survey?
During the third year of their investigation process on the report, the Union of Players interviewed 1,695 respondents in total, which is on average 52.97 team respondents and 77% of union membership through active lists and practice squads. At least 35 players from each team responded to the survey carried out during team visits covering the period from August 26 to November 20, with a summit of 68 respondents from the New York Giants.
The union hopes to condense the schedule for next year’s investigation in a month to eliminate the noise linked to the season’s results in data. Until now, the results have not been systematically correlated with a competitive advantage, although the union has added the team owner’s owner’s owner to include the commitment of a owner to build a competitive team and to contribution to the positive team culture in addition to the return category of an owner’s desire to invest in the facilities.
The Miami dolphins defended their title of best workplace in the League for a second consecutive year, followed by the Vikings of Minnesota, Falcons of Atlanta, Las Vegas raiders and Los Angeles. Falcons have dropped considerably from the 25th to the third in the general classification, helped by factors, including major improvements in the facilities, a new force staff and the first-year head coach Raheem Morris rank as the second largest chief loved behind Dan Quinn.
The Houston Texans, Green Bay Packers and San Francisco 49ers received similar notes when they completed the top eight.
The Cardinals of Arizona received the lowest notes for their workplace, followed by the second worst Patriots in New England, Cleveland Browns, Jets and Pittsburgh Steelers.
Who was in a correlation closely with the team owners who noted the lowest on the perceived will to invest: Robert Kraft of the Patriots ranked 28th, the 29th of the Patriots, the Steelers’ Art Rooney, the Michael Bidwill 31st and Johnson 32e.
Johnson obtained the lowest duration of contribution to the positive team culture, trailled closely by Tepper, Kraft, Jimmy Haslam and Bidwill of the Cleveland Browns.
Overall, the teams have improved in all areas. The players awarded their teams 41% more than at least a minus than a year before (compared to 81 to 114), while D-Plus dropped by 51% of 65 zones to 32. Only four zones on all the teams received finishes F.
Bengals have received an F-Minus for their treatment of families; The Bills received an F-Minus for team trips they complain is neither comfortable nor effective; And the changing rooms received F-Minus from cardinals and Bengals players.
But that was the exception rather than the rule. Tretter joked by saying that they could soon have to withdraw the F-Minus, “an almost extinguished category”.
“What first seemed a shame campaign really:” How to improve working conditions for our guys? “,” Said Howll. “This does not mean that you have to build a new building, but we say:” Be responsible “. And I see they are.