“Free Agency”? In this NFL?

Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where with the NFL Draft merely a couple of weeks ago and the free agency period wading in the deep end of the pool, your hosts examine the very relationship at hand: that between what constitutes “free agency” and the labor movement, at large. The curious cases of QB’s Aaron Rodgers and Lamar Jackson take centerstage, but the conversation dives deeper into the factors that have made this offseason in particular markedly more owner/franchise-friendly than beneficial to the league’s rank-and-file union member. But first a rant or three: where Zak plays Cronkite and runs through the week in another horrifying (if you’re not a conscienceless right-wing ghoul) in this week’s news cycle with special attention paid to the inhumanity being afforded both trans-gender teens and anti-gun state legislators by conservative government constituencies; Andrew takes a victory lap upon UConn men’s basketball’s 5th national title and the young men, coach and conference that made it possible; and finally Ed submits the triangulations of one of perhaps this country’s eldest, most corrupt and certainly most interminable under our Constitution’s bylaws conservative idealogues. Just another jam-packed week here on the Bill Bradley Collective. Title