{"id":1777921,"date":"2022-12-16T13:47:55","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T18:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1777921"},"modified":"2022-12-16T13:47:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T18:47:58","slug":"slave-auction-nfl-vp-of-football-operations-reportedly-ripped-scouting-combine-at-league-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/slave-auction-nfl-vp-of-football-operations-reportedly-ripped-scouting-combine-at-league-meetings\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Slave Auction\u2019: NFL VP Of Football Operations Reportedly Ripped Scouting Combine At League Meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fslave-auction-nfl-vp-of-football-operations-reportedly-ripped-scouting-combine-at-league-meetings%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1777921&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The NFL\u2019s executive vice president of football operations precipitated anger at league meetings this week by allegedly likening the NFL scouting combine, where college players perform so teams can judge whether they fit their needs, to a \u201cslave auction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Troy Vincent, who played in the NFL for 15 seasons and made the Pro Bowl five times, reportedly made the incendiary remark while announcing that the combine would feature a less stringent medical evaluation process and a close examination of what questions teams ask the players.<\/p>\n<p>According to CBS Sports, Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/news\/nfl-owners-get-defensive-after-scouting-combine-gets-compared-to-slave-auction-by-league-exec-troy-vincent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201ctook umbrage\u201d<\/a> with the comments, not liking the claim that he was collaborating or aiding in an event some might consider racist.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones reportedly took over from Blank and spoke of the benefits of playing in the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>During the meetings, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell also chimed in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe biggest thing that the players have raised over time is, \u2018I come in, I\u2019m fired up for this, and I have to go and get an additional medical test. And I\u2019m sitting in a hospital waiting for four or five hours on an MRI machine. I have to have multiple meetings about the same type of injury,\u2019\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor us, it\u2019s really about trying to improve that experience,\u201d Goodell continued. \u201cAnd they talk about lack of sleep because they get in at one o\u2019clock in the morning and then have to be back at five, and then they have to perform on the field. And it\u2019s an important element for them because they want to perform at the highest level. I think all of that goes into why we want to make that experience better for the players coming, making sure that they have the best ability to perform. And make sure that the clubs obviously get that information, but they have to get that in an appropriate and professional way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the meeting, Vincent reportedly said the league should reevaluate the combine because it was the first time many players would interact with the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just feel like the overall experience, talking to the players, we can be better in that particular aspect,\u201d he said. \u201cSo there was, I would say, a good discussion around what that looks like, where we could be, keeping in mind that the combine is the player\u2019s first experience with the National Football League, and in that experience, there has to be dignity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a great opportunity for the young men, but there has to be some form of dignity and level of dignity and respect as they go through that process,\u201d he continued. \u201cThat was the overall theme around our combine [discussion.]\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NFL\u2019s executive vice president of football operations precipitated anger at league meetings this week by allegedly likening the NFL scouting combine, where college players perform so teams can judge whether they fit their needs, to a \u201cslave auction.\u201d Troy Vincent, who played in the NFL for 15 seasons and made the Pro Bowl five &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1777924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[7681,9710,6202,5541,9153,8180,7215,7229,4292,5750,9709,9371,6195],"class_list":["post-1777921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-auction","tag-combine","tag-daily","tag-football","tag-league","tag-meetings","tag-nfl","tag-operations","tag-reportedly","tag-ripped","tag-scouting","tag-slave","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1777921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1777924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1777921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1777921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1777921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}