Welcome to the Thursday edition of the Pick Six newsletter!
Someone once said that “All publicity is good publicity,” and let me just say that the Washington Commanders are really putting that theory to the test this week. The team has been making negative headlines all week, thanks to owner Daniel Snyder, and somehow, things have now gone from bad to worse.
The Commanders were given the worst grades of any team in the NFL in a player survey about working conditions. We’ll be covering the details of that survey today, plus we’ll also be looking at the several burning questions about the NFL combine as we head into the meat of that annual event.
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1. NFLPA survey: Players love playing for Vikings and Raiders, hate playing for Commanders
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The Commanders don’t just have arguably the worst owner in the NFL, they also have the worst working conditions for players.
The reason we know that is because the NFLPA released a surprising survey on Wednesday where players were asked to grade the working conditions of their current team. The NFLPA had 1,300 players rate how their current team handles eight specific categories, including: treatment of families, nutrition, weight room, strength staff, training room, training staff, locker room and travel.
The players were asked to assign their team a letter grade from “A+” to “F-” in each category. We’re going to take a look at the three teams that scored the best and the three teams that scored the worst.
Top grades:
1. Vikings. Of the 32 teams in the NFL, the…
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